[ale] sort of OT: Windows driver for ext2/ext3 with 256-byte inodes?

Greg Freemyer greg.freemyer at gmail.com
Thu Nov 4 16:40:51 EDT 2010


John,

That's a fairly unique idea I hadn't considered, but I do occasionally
want to access eSata / USB drives with ext3 filesystems directly from
Windows.  I really assumed it was a simple task until yesterday when I
tried to do it.

The original linux server is now back online with a re-installed from
scratch OS and I've restored the data from the eSata drive to the
server.  I can now do a backup a more traditional way, but I would
still like to figure out how to directly access a ext3 volume on a
eSata drive.

Greg

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 4:09 PM, John Scott <John.Scott at peak10.com> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know a windows 2008 driver that will allow a ext3 drive
>> with 256-byte inodes to be mounted?
>
> Greg,
>
> This could be a very undesirable solution; however, still worth a thought.  This is presuming that your Windows 2008 box with LTO-4 tape drive has network backup software installed on it.
>
> You could take a different path entirely and install virtualbox or vmware on your windows system temporarily, fire up a small Linux VM, install the backup client software on the Linux VM, present the eSATA physical drive to the Linux VM, mount it, then perform a network backup of the Linux VM.  A lot of work to get this done, I know, but it would get it backed up absent any other ideas.
>
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