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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29Not as hot as this: http://www.fs-driver.org/
You can mount ext2/ext3 filesystems in Windows as a drive, like G: - mooninite, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16No it's not. This is old. It only supports the older versions (no ext3... the title is inaccurate)
XFS support... pfft ya if you have a 10 year old XFS partition. It won't read the newer XFS format.
This is lame and inaccurate. Bury under with your choice. - Brennan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11It probably just mounts ext3 as ext2 without the journal, that's what all the others do.
- 0004, on 07/04/2008, -0/+7for NFS mounts i use:
Windows Services for Unix:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/interopmigration/unix/sfu/default.mspx
for ext3:
http://www.fs-driver.org/
buried the story as crossmeta is old.. and missing a lot of features - 0004, on 07/04/2008, -0/+7a quick note, digg won't let me edit the post above.
the files that Crossmeta publishes are ANCIENT. Download the archives and see their contents: most of them have a date stamp of JUNE+JULY 2004. yes, 2004. Usually this means that they did not fix any bugs in their software, and they don't care to fix them. The software is ABANDONED!
fs-driver.org and microsoft SFU on the other hand are maintained quite well. At least they acknowledge and fix their issues. - misxn, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10That's hot..
- rektide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5the problem with http://www.fs-driver.org/ is that if the partition isnt shut down properly and requires a fsck you need to reboot into linux, fsck the drive, cleanly unmount and restart. (its only an ext2 driver, but ext3 can be read as an ext2 system, which is how this IFS driver operates)
- jambarama, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I have a dualboot, one partition on EXT3, the other NTFS. With the aforementioned EXT2 driver: http://www.fs-driver.org/ I can read and write to my EXT3 partition, appropriately assigned the drive letter "L:".
It seems either ext3 is backwards compatible with ext2 drivers, or ext2 and ext3 are close enough that it doesn't matter. AFAIK it just ditches the journalling features. - cdmarcus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yeah, Windows tends to crash and then I have to fsck the drive. The thing is, it's better than this, which doesn't even have ANY support for Ext3.
- cjmovie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5And _still_ no 64-bit support.
- subhuman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Actually - ext3 is just ext2 with journalling - so yes it does have ext3 support, it just won't be journalled.
- Diganta, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8Missing is HFS+ and ZFS. Maybe the next version.
- GMorgan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4According to that there is no Ext3 support. It mentions it in passing but the list at the bottom mentions only Ext2 which we can already get.
- slubman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Better than fs-driver which is a freeware (but closed source), there is a free (as in free speech) ext2 driver for windows NT/2K/XP (I don't know if it works with 2003) available there : http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/ .
- zeroepoch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Actually you can download the source from sourceforge.net and its GPL licensed. Starting with 0.30 they have an Ext2 Manager which I think can do permissions. I've used it before on Win64 and it works really well with write support.
- adfsj, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Doesn't support NFSv4. Prior to v4 there is no kerberos security (to prevent packet sniffing, and other people taking control of your mounts with a little MAC/ip spoofing!), not something you would want to deploy in a company!
- jkc120, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The NFS driver BSOD's my Windows XP SP2 installation. :/
What other NFS alternatives are there for free besides the Microsoft Unix services for windows (which is a huge pile of bloat)? - cdmarcus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Read some of the comments on the top.
- nazadus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Meh, I'm still wanting FFS write support for XP. I wonder if this will do it for OpenBSD's fs
- CeeJayDK, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Besides *nix compatibility are there any advantages to using either this (in native mode) or the driver from fs-driver.org ?
Like speed , security , reliability or efficiency ?
And can you defragment a volume in Windows , if it's not a FAT or a NTFS volume ? - fatalfuj, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I recently switched to Linux and my ext3 partition is what stopped me from booting back to (Tiny) XP. I didn't think this was possible, definitely a good link to include in those You're New to Linux guides.
Oh I'm running the fs-driver, simple enough to install. Now I can use itunes to update the ipod with cover art from all my new files. The one thing Amarok doesn't seem to do and the only reason to be in XP. - swagat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1but fs-driver doesnt support reiserfs,..this apparently does
- ZPWeeks, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Yeah, that page is a little confusing...
"With its native support for EXT2/EXT3, XFS and Reiserfs..."
But later down the page, they leave ext3 out... :-/
I could use this, if it really has ext3. But I don't think it does. - jambarama, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3As useful as this is, ext/reiser drivers have been out forever for Windows. Wake me up when someone writes an HFS+ driver for Windows that doesn't cost a fortune.
- yogiincork, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Does it support LVM?
- Greeneemer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2How is this in comparison to the fs-driver?
- Hubris, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Presumably this allows you to purchase a Windows Server license so you can serve Linux files.....rather than using Linux to serve them for free.
I'm all for compatibility, but I think this has limited use for most. Unless you're using the latest features of Active Directory you're better off serving from *nix using Samba, than serving *nix files from Windows. - strid3r34, on 01/11/2009, -0/+0this piece of crap gave me the blue screen of death!
- STKD, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I particularly liked the instant BSOD this gave me on Server R2. Quality work.
/sarcasm - aaronm67, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Call me crazy, but haven't these drivers been out for quite a few years now?
- mattyp1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1You mean people still use windows?
- marcus4132, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yes, XFS support, though it's old, I know. But it's the only one I could find for windows at the time of posting, haven't looked since then, probably easier to just share the XFS by samba and access it that way.
- marcus4132, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I mostly found it interesting because it was the only windows driver I found for XFS, there are plenty for ext2, reiser.
- marcus4132, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah, most people.
- Mark0Pon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Read / Write ability on ext2-3 volumes may come handy also when dealing (maybe for some sort of data rescue) with HD used by various Linux based NAS devices, I think.
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http://mark0.net/onlinetrid.aspx - crazypenguin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1WOW... You are telling us Microsoft doesn't go out their way to support Ext2, Ext3, Reiserfs, XFS, JFS, UFS, NFS in a "Windows" OS. Wow what a shock!!!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+4And no Ext4 support? ;)
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