Which ext2 mount daemon on XP runs well?
TNWestTex
mcforum at bellsouth.net
Fri May 16 13:45:22 UTC 2008
Reik Red wrote:
>
> (trying again, this time without making the mistake of hijacking a thread)
>
> This is a bit OT, but I'm having troubles with ext2fsd (in the form of
> "ext2 volume manager") on XP.
>
> It works ok with just reading/writing files from XP onto my ext2/ext3
> linux partition,
> but I use rsync to back up the linux partition to another one (external
> drive).
>
> From rsync there are seemingly endless error messages about
> "disappearing files"
> (possibly caused by dangling symlinks), and also some sort of infinite
> loop of links
> to my home directory. The net effect is that rsync does not work for me.
>
> So: Is there anything I can do about this, or are there any alternatives
> to ext2fsd (v0.45. latest)
> that will solve my problem? Thanks.
>
> ADDED:
>
> I checked on some of the symlinks, and in many cases they point into
> space (but make sense on another
> computer that I use and sync with, so I do not want to delete them).
>
> The problem seems to be that either ext2fsd or rsync is being too nosy
> about dangling links.
> There is no problem when booting into linux and running rsync there. I
> have, perhaps errantly,
> concluded hat it must be ext2fsd doing something strange, such as
> marking he symlink files as "bad"
> because they point into space. I don't see any configuration parameter
> to change how ext2fsd handles this.
>
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YMMV
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2603820
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2603820
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2603820
I use EXT2IFS but only for simple file reading, writing. Everything else is
done from Linux with ntfs-3g mounted drives. No major problems but
occasionally get clean up messages on booting the system.
Robert McBroom
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