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From: Tony Richardson <ar63@evansville.edu>
Subject:  Re: Cygwin and Ext2 IFS?
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:46:01 +0000 (UTC)
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Public Mailing Lists <lists <at> lists.cichon.com> writes:
> I got an USB hard drive, and on this disk there is a ext3 filesystem. 
> This filesystem is accessible under Windows XP using a software called 
> Ext2 IFS for Windows.
>
> Does Cygwin work together with this software? Is it possible to mount 
> this filesystem into cygwin in a way that cygwin uses symbolic links, 
> permission flags, upper/lower-case filenames etc. that are stored on 
> this file-system?

Cygwin works fine with it.  It looks like a regular Windows filesystem,
however.  Symlinks, perms, and upper/lower-case are not supported
because IFS does not support them.  (See the IFS FAQ.)

Tony Richardson



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