I know that this question has a fairly obvious
answer, but is there or will there be a reiser4 driver
for Windows? Microsoft will only make one if enough
people use reiser4, otherwise hell will freeze before
they do. The free software people seem to suffer from
NIH syndrome, so they probably won't help either. That
only leaves individuals or companies. In my opinion,
reiser4/5/6, etc will be the defacto filesystem of the future -
plugin architecture, repacker, sparse file support, etc.
what more can you ask for? Any ideas on when we might
see a reiser4 driver for windows?

Yale

Quoted from:
http://www.p-nand-q.com/download/rfstool.html


"RFSTOOL - ReiserFS for Windows - allows you to access ReiserFS partitions from a Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP system. Starting with version 0.6, it even allows you to access ReiserFS partitions from Linux . It is a complete rewrite of the ReiserFS functions needed to list directories or access files.
Requirements

* This tool was developed on NT/2000. The current version has support for Windows NT, 2000, XP, as well as the 16-bit products Windows 95, 98 and ME.
* For NT/2000/XP: You need administrative privileges to run this program. Normal users will probably not have the access rights to the raw partition data.
* You need to know the drive and partition index of the ReiserFS partition you want to read. Luckily, the new version includes an autodetect feature

Restrictions

* Access is read-only. I do not intend to change that, at least for the time being.
* Journal data is ignored. These tools show the file structure as it is ON DISK, right now.

License

The code is copyright (C) 2003, 2004 by Gerson Kurz and licensed by the GPL"

Thanks for the tip, but it looks like that software only works for ReiserFS at the moment, not Reiser4 (which is considerably more complex).

Whoops sorry. Still kinda new to all the different file systems.

Hi Guys. It seems this post is about 3 years old!! That's good, because today better solutions might already exist.

So, I've just discoveried "Reiser Driver For Windows" is my quest to find some software that allow me to READ/WRITE in a file system like REISER4 or EXT3 and also allow windows to detect it. This first project works fine for EXT2, and works as EXT2 when reading/writting in a EXT3 file system. It seems to be something like the RFSTOOL, but with the advantage that the file system is detected by windows in the start up, you can also write in it (not only read like this secound one), etc etc.

So, my question is:

Is there any new software/drive that allows me to read/write in a file system like EXT3 or REISERFS (meanning REISER4) with journaling and everything and allows windows to detect this FS in the start up?

I'm about to create a big partition in my HD to share files between Windows and Linux. And won't use FAT since it sucks, and I don't want to use NTFS yet. I won't use NTFS if I get a solution for Windows that allows me to work perfectly in these Linux file systems.

I'm really hopefull that I can find it, because these linux file systems aren't proprietary. Every developer that has created any software to read/write anything in a NTFS file systems from Linux complains that it might not work because NTFS is proprietary. Since REISER and EXT3 aren't (as far as I know) I really expect to get something better to write in a REISER than what we have to write in NTFS (NTFS-3G for example). At Least now they can't complain about the FS being proprietary. I hope I'm right.

So, do you guys know anything??

I was in the same boat as U are. But then I chose reiser3 for ROOT and my BIG home partition is EXT3 which can be read/written to also from Win