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Look into sharing the files as a UDF file system. I 'm not sure this will
work and it will take research.
Bob
On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 07:51, John Haxby wrote:
> This is probably slightly off-topic for this list, but I know there 's
> some good people reading this list.
>
> I want to share large files -- files too big to fit in a FAT32 file
> system -- between Windows (2K or XP) and Linux. I use NTFS to store
> them on Windows at the moment, but access to them from Linux is somewhat
> limited.
>
> Now, I know that I could build a kernel with NTFS write access enabled,
> but I 'm rather loathe to do that considering that NTFS write access is
> generally regarded as, shall we say, somewhat dangerous. NFS and Samba
> aren 't, I 'm afraid, an option since (a) it takes forever to copy a 15Gb
> file across the network and (b) (more to the point) NFS and Samba
> require both machines to be up at the same time and this is a dual-boot
> machine I 'm talking about!
>
> Does anyone have a solution to this kind of problem?
>
> thanks
> jch
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