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
