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Subject: Big external drives - which filesystem?
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Chris Hastie writes:

>  Is NTFS an option? 

	You should check the archives ... but I believe the answer to
that is "No."  Last I remember, NTFS write support was broken and
read support was flakey in strange ways (i.e. worked for some people
some of the time).
	(I just added an external disk for back-up purposes myself but
was able to format it as UFS2, so no problem.)


				Robert Huff