Writing to ext3 fs from XP

Gilboa Davara gilboad at gmail.com
Mon Dec 4 08:28:09 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 16:49 +0800, Hadders wrote:
> Hi all,
>   Just wondering if anybody has had any experience of writing to an ext3 
> partition within windows.
> 
> If found this driver, http://www.fs-driver.org/ . Sound goods, but only 
> has ext2 support.
> 
> Does anybody know of anything similar for ext3?
> 
> Why? Because I'm thinking of setting up a 120GB RAID 1 (mirror) and want 
> to share the mirror between Windows and Linux for backups.
> 
> Thanks.
> 

Why not use FAT32? Both Linux and Windows can use it. (...And *BSD and
DOS and...)
Plus, as you're using it for backups, you most likely don't need
journaling/security/etc.

- Gilboa




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