On 04/21/2010 07:11 PM, Wiseguyxp wrote: > Do you know if anyone is working on a btrfs driver for Windows? I've > been playing around with FS configurations on my desktop and haven't > found anything other than FAT/NTFS to be compatible and reliable > enough for a shared drive/partition on a dual boot system. Ext3/4 was > giving me issues in Windows 7 and I finally just gave up, and the > other FS's discussed here don't seem to have decent drivers for > Windows 7 either.
Sadly, lack of FS support is one of the things you give up when you choose to use Windows. That said, I think that every file system should come in a fuse version for testing and use in weird situations. Having good Ext3 support, even as a fuse filesystem, would be a godsend when using a Mac. MacFuse already exists; wouldn't be too hard to tack any and all linux file systems on it if they had fuse support. But even trying to compile linux file systems outside the kernel tree as modules is not easy. I'd be more willing to test out btrfs if I could drop it in as a fuse module instead of trying to compile one the backports or having to compile an entirely new kernel. Of course there are many things that fuse can't provide a file system (other than speed), so I understand why no one produces fuse version, other than ntfs-3g which works really well as a fuse module. -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
