What filesystem to use for transferring files between Windows and Linux?

[magomago]

Hi - school ended and I finally pieced my system together which I'm pretty excited about. Now, just like in the past, I'm going to go Linux on a 248 gig partition + 2 gig swap on a 320 gig drive, and then the rest for Windows since I occaisonally play some games, or have to use a program like solidworks which has no linux version.

Now at the same time I'm going to have an external 320 gig hdd in this setup. I want to use this to store stuff, as well as act as an intermediate for Linux and Windows. I would ideally put music, backups of files on the main hdd, some videos on it to have it accessible between both.

But aside from FAT32, is there any file system that I can use which isn't as old (that and I've seen people advise away from FAT32 in favor of other formats) in which I can READ and WRITE from both OSes? Is there full EXT3 support for Windows with some kind of driver/program installed that can be auto booted?

Thanks guys =)

 

[magomago]

So doing some research at the same time this is what I think I'm looking for:

http://www.fs-driver.org

I would most likely format my drive as EXT3 (unless there are any "better" filesystems to use, in which case i'd use it for my ubuntu partition as well)

If any of you care to comment I would appreciate it, as unless other better alternatives materialize, I will most likely go this method =)

 

[imported_nightfox]

I have that driver on my windows box too and it reads and writes to the linux partion just fine. The only problem is that it doesn't support permissions so I have to be careful not to delete any of the critical files on my linux partion while I'm in windows.