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windows file system driver for a unix file system?

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jackwhitter

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i have a 600gb raid array that i used to run as NTFS in windows, but i switched to linux and i wish to use a different file system type. i can read ntfs OK in linux, but write support is limited and risky...

i've seen ext2 drivers for windows, but i have no idea of their ease of use in windows. i want my linux file system to have plenty of disk checks and journaling. i want file system stability more than speed, so i want a file system i can in linux that can also be used in windows.
 
There is always FAT32, though it is quite outdated.

I recommend using ext3. You can use software like explore2fs and Virtual Volumes to read/write ext2/ext3 file systems. Also, there is rfstool for ReiserFS (AFAIK no write support there, though). At the moment the best is ext3.
 
FAT is your only real option, there are ext2 IFS drivers for Windows but they don't do any journaling. You'd probably be much better off not dualbooting, just put one of the drives in one machine and use it with a native filesytem via the network.
 
ok, i saw that ext3 is ext2 + journaling. i do not need the journaling in windows as i would not use windows that often, but i would use it some. i tried fat32 on a previous raid 5 array, and while the array stayed up when a drive went down, the fat32 volume starting having issues due to use/age.. not enough checks built in. i ended up having to move the data off and reformat it. also, getting the raid array formatted initially was an exercise in frustration... windows won't do anything over 32gbs initially... i tried using ranish partition manager and it would claim to make the partition fat32, but it never ended up readable. sigh. big headache.

ext3 w/ journaling then. thanks!
 
ok, i saw that ext3 is ext2 + journaling.
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Sort of, the on-disk format is mostly the same but there's also a good bit that can be different these days. Like the inode for online resizing and hashed directory trees. And the Linux drivers are a lot different these days, but that shouldn't affect the Windows drivers. Call me paranoid, but I'd be pretty leery of trusting a Windows ext2 driver to work on an ext3 filesystem without doing a lot of testing myself.
 
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