<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Saved the comment below for posterity, since I saw you mention that the storage is local:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strike>A faster option compared to samba in Winder$ is iSCSI, but the iSCSI initiator on Windows (on both the client and server OS) only allows a single client to mount the iSCSI device. I don't know if that's part of the iSCSI standard. I have used in the past for faster network-based Windows Server Backups to Buffalo & netgear NAS'.</strike></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Another thought is exFAT, which is a gray area as others have mentioned. Linux has a FUSE driver for it. Other options: </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT#Reimplementations" target="_blank"><br class="m_6463895212703210835gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT#Reimplementations</a> <br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I have used FAT32 reliably on larger drives (I recall Windows Disk Management let me resize a slaved FAT32 partition to 500GB the last time I tried) but again, no journaling, DEFINITELY use a UPS (a bad idea for a laptop).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">ReFS has read only support but is abandoned by MSFT and is only supported on the Server OS AFAIK.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">ZFS on Windows is making progress, but it isn't stable yet. You have have some luck with these options [<a href="https://superuser.com/questions/289189/access-a-zfs-volume-in-windows" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" target="_blank">https://superuser.com/questions/289189/access-a-zfs-volume-in-windows</a>] but I haven't tried them.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">There's been a need for awhile for a modern non-patent/license encumbered filesystem for local storage supported by every OS.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 1:15 PM Calvin Harrigan via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 8/2/2019 12:14, Calvin Harrigan wrote:<br>
> Hi all,<br>
><br>
> I've found myself in a situation where I need to share several <br>
> large partitions on a single machine across Windows 10 and Linux <br>
> (ubuntu 18.04)<br>
><br>
> What would be the best filesystem option for sharing read/write access <br>
> to these partitions? I thought about using NTFS with ntfs-3g under <br>
> linux, but because of the proprietary nature of NTFS, I'm reluctant. <br>
> I'm afraid of catastrophic filesystem failure in the event of a driver <br>
> error. Is VFAT(fat32) a viable option? It officially has a limit of <br>
> 32GB, though I know it can go as high as 2TB. It offers no features <br>
> of a modern filesystem though. EXT4 doesn't have a practical driver <br>
> based solution for windows. There are programs like Ext2Fsd, but I <br>
> have the same issues with it as I do with ntfs-3g.<br>
><br>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Thanks<br>
><br>
><br>
As pointed out by Neil, this is local storage, dual boot setup.<br>
<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
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