[Dclug] NTFS on Linux?

[Maxwell Spangler]

I've just purchased a pair of external 500G drives and would like to use
both to make large sets of data available between Linux/Fedora10 and
WindowsXP.

I'd like to know where NTFS support stands on Linux in real world
conditions.  Can anyone who has been using NTFS on Linux in similar
situations provide any comments about their experiences?

ps. FAT32 would be the traditional solution to this but many of my
filenames contain characters FAT32 doesn't like, so that is one of a few
problems I'd like to avoid with NTFS.

Thanks,

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Maxwell Spangler