Thursday, August 14th 2003

  • Created

    Aug 14 2003, 02:24

  • Updated

    Nov 01 2009, 21:50

  • By

    Rui Carmo

  • Tags

    filesystems, windows, ntfs, interoperability, large files

  • References
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NTFS

The NT File System, introduced with Windows NT and later modified in Windows 2000 to support compression. It was further enhanced in XP, 7, etc., but not that much – most of the new features (like encryption) have caused more trouble than they’re worth.

There are several kinds of support on Mac OSX:

  1. The base OS supports read-only access to NTFS volumes
  2. There has long been an open-source effort spanning a number of operating systems that has recently gone commercial and seems to have reached some sort of understanding with Microsoft regarding the IPR involved.
  3. Paragon has long had a commercial driver that integrates (very) smoothly1 with the OS, including adding the appropriate options to Disk Utility for formatting disks and partitions.

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1 Which is why I ended up buying a license of their 7.0 software for one of my Snow Leopard machines. Your mileage may vary. ↩


See Also

Paragon NTFS giveawayMicrosoftHow to Switch to the MacNTFS
Snow LeopardWindows 7EeerritationsWindows XP
Disk UtilityMac OS XBakingMac
Linksys NSLU2WindowsThe Hours of Service Pack 2The Red Toshiba
Long WeekendThree In a RowNTSlight Overload
Fall of the Web WallDual Burn-InAnd Now For Something (Almost) Completely Identical...The Quest For Easier Information Management
Filesystems For Removable DisksHOWTO: Set up USB Storage