Which filesystems can be used by OS X and WinXP?

[dan_aka_jack]

Hi there,

I'm planning to buy a Mac Pro and dual-boot OS X and Win XP SP2.

Are there any file systems which can be written to and read by both OS X and Win XP? Is the only choice FAT32? Am I correct in thinking that FAT32 isn't as fast as NTFS?

I'm planning to use the system for video editing and I'm planning to build a 3.5TB 8-disk RAID5 array. Will I need to have three partitions on the array:

1 partition for use on with OS X
1 partition for use on Win XP
1 FAT 32 partition to exchange info between the two systems

Many thanks,
Jack

 

[dan_aka_jack]

Many thanks for the reply. FAT32 is certainly very limiting with its maximum file size of 4GB.

I've done a little bit of reading which seems to suggest that NTFS-3G is a stable, safe, fast and free way to read and write to NTFS volumes from Mac OS X (or Linux). Has anyone had any experience with NTFS-3G?

Many thanks,
Jack