Reading XFS on Windows XP.
 

Does anybody know of a software that can help reading XFS on Windows?

I tried to search a bit on google, but was unsuccessful.

I have XFS on my Linux Box, and my laptop can read and write to it(windows XP Home). It is samba that handles that for you.

LOL. Not Samba.

I want to read XFS from Windows from the same computer!

Sorry, you didn't really indicate how you wanted Windows to read XFS, I guess I made a bad assumption there.

Okay...
Normally you have to have a 3rd parititon, or a format readable by both as one of thte partitions to store data on the same computer...But I used to use this: http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm for ext2 and ext3, I used to use that in school, so I bet there is a similar program for reading XFS, but I really don't know about those. I have no experience with others, so sorry about that.

>so I bet there is a similar program for reading XFS

LOL. That is why I have posted this topic man! ;-)

I was not able to find any for XFS.
I know there are more than a couple of softwares for EXT3 and EXT2.

But i couldn't find any for Reiser FS, XFS etc.

Windoze drivers for EXT2, XFS, reiserfs and FFS:
http://www.crossmeta.com/

http://groups.google.com/group/cross...ystem-drivers/ Tells many tales of the drivers being massively unstable causing the windows machines to BSOD, Freeze on unmounting drives, etc...

Good thing it wasn't there on their homepage for download, I can't find a DL link anywhere, which is why I checked that google group.

Those Crossmeta drivers seem to be the only ones for XFS. For anybody who is interested, there is another driver for ReiserFS: http://rfsd.sourceforge.net/

Thanks guys.

I will try it soon. :)


Also,
LQ has a better appearance now. :)

Love it. :)

I cannot see any place where I can download the Cross Meta Drivers.

Can anybody post a link for the download?

coLinux allows one to run a linux kernel inside of windows, which could then theoretically read/write any filesystem for which there is a linux driver.

Nevermind, I don't use Windows and will not use it. [;)]

Readonly access to reiserfs from Windows
 

I have used YAReG to read reiserfs partitions from windows (2003/XP). Its not a driver like e2fs tools. It launches a little UI application that allows browsing and copying files from reiserfs partitions into a windows folder. There is not support for writing.