There may very well not be an easy answer to what I want, but I was hoping some people here might be able to give me some pointers. My internal hard drive on my MacBook Pro is partitioned into two volumes, one HFS+for OS X, and the other NTFS for WIndows Vista. I use OS X for almost all of my day-to-day work, but I boot into Vista for two reasons: gaming and streaming media to my Xbox 360.
Of course, an internal hard drive, especially one that's partitioned, is hardly useful for storing a media library. So I invested in a 500 GB WD MyBook, which, so far, has worked wonderfully. It was formatted FAT32 out of the box, though, which has an architectural 4 GB file size limit.
Obviously, I would prefer a file system that was readable and writable by both OSes, but, of course, if such a system existed that supported files >4 GB, then it would be the "default" formatting state.
So I was wondering, is there is any file system that is read/write enabled for OS X and at least readable for Windows without the file size limit? That way, I could handle most of the legwork of organizing the files OS X-side, then have Windows just pull the data off as needed.
All of my research has landed me without a solid answer, so I'm assuming the worst.
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