I've considered the NAS route even if in a more indirect manner.<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I thought of putting a VM on the windows box that runs a stripped down version of linux with samba and have windows r/w to the share and consequently to the hard drive, but what a way to go. I thought about the ntfs-3g route as well, but seeing since linux will be the dominant use of the box, I don't want to format the drive to NTFS. I'm not sure, but I don't think the ntfs drivers would take well to reading an hd stream while write two other HD streams and an SD stream simultaneously.<div>
<div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>Have you looked into ext2fsd? It is comparable to ext2ifs and is open source. Plus the most recent build .46 has support for larger inodes. I haven't used it personally but I know of several people who have used it for years without trouble.<br>