Re: [Staffslug] Windows/Linux shared partition
2009/11/1 Chris Snow <cr.snow(a)gmail.com>:
> Yes, and me and it wouldn't be a closed source file format
either :-)
> I may have it wrong and it's ext2 that has MS Windows support?
Yeah, It's in MS's best interests to support an open source file system eh?
Chris we may be at crossed purposes here? My recommendation for using
the ext (2 or 3) fs under Windows is because we have the choice of
either using ntfs in Linux where there has admitedly been a lot of
guess work to get it working. Or, we can use the libraries for ext 2
or 3) that have been transparently written to work fully under Windows
without any hidden surprises.
I'm not trying to be funny or get one over on anybody, it's just that
it seems more sensible to me to use something for mission critical
work that has been built to work with all aspects out in the open.
NTFS is not designed to work with Linux it is designed only for
Windows NT systems and only works under Linux because of the hard work
conducted by many people in our community. That work has been carried
out blindfold in some cases with guess work to get it working.
Ah, apparently this driver:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd/
is the recommended one and it works for both read and write on ext2
and ext3 file systems under Windows.
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