Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: JRSON@NetZero.Net (John R Hanson) To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Possibilities for ext2fs Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 07:41:08 GMT Reply-To: JRSON@NetZero.Net Message-ID: <37c1f9b7.3496700@smtp.netzero.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Note-from-DJ: This may be spam There is a GNU read only ext2 driver for NT, it works quite well. archie for e2fsprogs-1.12-NTx86.rar or e2fsprogs-1.12-NT.rar (source) This version may be slightly out of date. ext2 "drives" can be mounted or unmounted for cygwin just like any other. On Mon, 23 Aug 1999 09:27:07 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: >On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Chris Telting wrote: > >> I was just wondering if anyone has considered extending the mount >> system such that you could access ext2 partitions under nt. The >> file access would no doubt be slow but it might be usful. >> >> Is the mount system adaptable to this or would it require a redesign? > >I don't think the mount system is the clue. Fact is, I know of no free IFS >toolkit for Windows NT, and it is my understanding (from some hints in the >NT 5.0b3, a.k.a. Win2k, DDK documentation) that there are some non-trivial >changes from release 4.0 to release 5.0, making it a pretty difficult (if >_VERY_ interesting) option. I hope I'll be shown wrong, of course... > >Best regards to you all > > Federico Bianchi > Dipartimento di Storia delle Arti > Universita` degli Studi di Pisa > p.zza S.Matteo in Soarta, 2 - 56127 Pisa (Italy) > tel. +39-050-587111 (cent.), +39-050-587224 (uff.) > fax. +39-050-580128; e-mail: > =================================================== > !DISCLAIMER!: my e-mail reflects _my_own_ opinions! > =================================================== ________________________________________________________ NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com