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.
EDITED (Everything addes is now underlined): This project works fine just for Reiser (the buggy one). It doesn't support ReiserFS (Reiser4 - the fixxed FS).

Another project is "Ext2 Installable File System For Windows"
This secound 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 RFSTOOL), 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 hope you guys can help me.

I don't think I can answer you question as to how to write from windows to a linux filesystem, but have you researched 'ntfs-3g' yet? It allows linux to mount windows' ntfs partitions with safe and stable write permission.

Sam

Yes I know it and I use it too. But, if you know it, you also know that the reading/writting is not as fast as It is inside windows for exemple even though ntfs-3g is much faster than captive. And it's not totally safe. It's a testing software and it writes data wrongly sometimes and it become sometimes unreadable in Windows. I'm here trying to find something that allows me to use a file system as good as NTFS in its FULL. Since EXT3 and REISERFS (REISER4) aren't proprietary file systems, developers weren't supposed to have as much trouble to write software to it as Linux developers have to write software to NTFS.

As I said:
So, the idea now isn't to use ntfs-3g directly.

Alien_Hominid you have just posted a link for the project I have already mentioned to know, didn't you see? And the link send us to: "Does the Ext2 driver access Ext3 volumes, too?" I have also mentioned to know about that in my first message, and if you read there you'll see it doesn't support journaling. It access EXT3 as if it were EXT2, and it has some problems as you can easily see in the same link. Anyway, if you want to add some comment to it, feel free.

Thanks.

As far as I can see, you only state "the first project works fine ...". How must we know which project you're actually refering to?

My bad Wim Sturkenboom. I was reading my first post and something was missing from my copy/past. The name "Ext2 Installable File System For Windows" got lost before the explanation of it. As you have correctly mentioned when I said "the first project works fine ..." I was already refering to a secound project. It was a bad copy and paste. If you take a look there now I have editted it. I didn't remove anything, and everything I have added is underlined.

SORRY Alien_Hominid, sorry Wim Sturkenboom.

The project I mentioned before: rfsd: ReiserDriver
LINK: http://rfsd.sourceforge.net/resources.html

This project is dead since 2005. I did read somewhere else that it doesn't support Journaling of Reiser4, and it works only as Reiser not ReiserFS/Reiser4. But I can't get any good confirmation at their home page.

Would any of you know if the latest release from August 9th, 2005 supports journaling? Thanks

You got frustrated from 'our' replies and I got frustrated from your replies.

Apologies accepted