From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Fri, 22 Dec 2006 15:13:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from sandeen.net (sandeen.net [209.173.210.139]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id kBMNDPqw014719 for ; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 15:13:28 -0800 Message-ID: <458C6663.1050904@sandeen.net> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 17:12:35 -0600 From: Eric Sandeen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: XFS References: <458C1917.4040807@falconstor.com> In-Reply-To: <458C1917.4040807@falconstor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: geir.myrestrand@falconstor.com Cc: Jaideep Nandy , xfs@oss.sgi.com Geir A. Myrestrand wrote: > Jaideep Nandy wrote: >> Usb drive. I used a tera station to format it with XFS and backed up >> file onto it. Now I want to use the drive on a regular win xp box with >> ntfs partition. > > Windows [XP] have no knowledge of XFS, nor have I ever heard of any > applications running natively on Windows [XP] that can read XFS file > systems. Your best bet is to use a Linux distro to read it. you could also try http://www.crossmeta.com/crossmeta.html > You can make your PC multi-boot, so that you either start up in Windows > XP or in Linux/UNIX. > > You can also use a program like VMware Workstation or VMware Player > (both are free) to install Linux in a virtual machine under Windows > --then you can run both at the same time. > > If you do not want to install anything, then get a Linux live distro and > boot from that. A live distro is a special DVD (or CD) that will let you > run the OS directly from the optical disc, with no need to install > anything on the local disk. You may need a USB drive or something like > that to save configuration files, etc. > > Not all Linux distributions support XFS, but any version of SUSE Linux > should serve the purpose. OpenSUSE 10.2 was just released and should do > the job --see http://www.opensuse.org. > > Once you get access to the XFS file system from Linux on your PC, then > you can copy it to a FAT partition, because both Windows and Linux > support that. Or you can access your NTFS partition from Linux (if you > dare) --see http://www.linux-ntfs.org. > > I'm assuming that the USB drive is independent of the Tera Station, if > not then you can simply utilize the NAS feature of the Tera Station and > map to the share from Windows XP. Also, if you do not have the Tera > Station but have a Linux computer, then you could use Samba (see > http://www.samba.org) to share out the USB disk and you could map to it > from your Windows XP box. > > With a closed source OS it isn't trivial for anyone to provide you with > direct support for a third party file system, it will be merely > workarounds for deficiencies in the OS. > > I recommend you ditch your OS but keep your USB disk with XFS. ;-) > >