are data transfer by lan independent of hard disk format?

[digifriend]

i.e suppose 2 computer are directly connected with each other by crosscable lan. if one computer has NTFS format while other has FAT32, will they able to share data with each other?

 

[King X13]

you can even have 2 hard drives on the same computer 1 fat32 and one NTFS and everything will still work fine. so yes across a network it will still work fine.

 

[Law]

Yes, the protocol your computer use across the network is independent of your file system type. That's why you can trade files over the Internet and to a Linux machine or a Mac OS.

It's just when you're transferring file from hard drive to hard drive in the OS, if your on Linux, chances are by default your running reisfer or ext3 and Linux doesn't support NTFS write by default so you can't do that unless you compile your kernel for NTFS write support. That's one example.

Or when Windows canÂ’t see Linux file system type, another example when you dual boot.

 

[digifriend]

thanks for clear and simple ans.