Re: [Thinkpad] [R40, a bit OT] Pros & Cons of NTFS vs FAT32?

From: Julian Thomas <jt_at_jt-mj.net>
Date: Wed Mar 31 2004 - 19:12:12 EST

In <00dc01c41768$e8c70050$9c02a8c0@SIERPINSKI>, on 03/31/04
   at 11:41 AM, "David Ross" <ross@math.hawaii.edu> typed:

>FAT32 is also somewhat faster on smaller partitions (I think NTFS is
>faster when partitions are bigger than 32 gigs).

One more point - for those of us who boot to OS2 as well as Win2k/xp,
there are fairly good OS2 drivers for FAT32. The os2 NTFS drivers are
reported to be somewhat shaky (maybe OK in readonly mode, which limits
full file sharing).

 

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