Re: Writing to ext3 fs from XP

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On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 17:34 +0800, Hadders wrote:
> Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >   
> Maximum file size is 4GB,  my "My Documents" directory in Windows is 
> 8GB, and I use the Windows Backup Utility, which isn't very sophisticated.
> 
> I suppose I could back it up to my NTFS volume, then zip/rar it as 4GB 
> volumes...   also it seems silly to have that limitation, of 4GB.
> 
> You're right, I'm not worried about journaling etc, it's mirror...
> 

As far as I remember, ntbackup does support file splitting.
As for Linux, splitting tar is a pain... but there's a number of OSS
backup programs in core/extra.

Other options are:
A. Format the fs as ext2. (As you said, you don't really need
journaling.)
B. Format the fs as ntfs and use the ntfs-write driver.

- Gilboa


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