[ale] Local File Storage options

[Calvin Harrigan]

Hi all,

     I've found myself in a situation where I need to share several 
large partitions on a single machine across Windows 10 and Linux (ubuntu 
18.04)

What would be the best filesystem option for sharing read/write access 
to these partitions?  I thought about using NTFS with ntfs-3g under 
linux, but because of the proprietary nature of NTFS, I'm reluctant.  
I'm afraid of catastrophic filesystem failure in the event of a driver 
error.  Is VFAT(fat32) a viable option?  It officially has a limit of 
32GB, though I know it can go as high as 2TB.  It offers no features of 
a modern filesystem though.  EXT4 doesn't have a practical driver based 
solution for windows.  There are programs like Ext2Fsd, but I have the 
same issues with it as I do with ntfs-3g.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.


Thanks