One reason that made me think for a while before sticking with NFS is that writing to a NTFS partition from Linux/insert-favourite-non-MS-OS is pretty much lethal unless you're careful. Microsoft has released the specification for FAT12/16/32 but they're refusing to release any detailed specs for the newer versions of NTFS.

I've gotten around the problem by using explore2fs to grab files off the Linux partition whilst in XP and using the NTFS driver in read only mode from Linux.

- Trevor