Linux File Systems for Windows: Use EXT4 / XFS / Btrfs On Windows

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux File Systems for Windows: Use EXT4 / XFS / Btrfs On Windows

For those bound to using Microsoft Windows but needing to access EXT4/Btrfs/XFS partitions, the commercial Linux File Systems for Windows eases the headache of using Windows...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-File-Systems-for-Windows

[Niarbeht]

I've known about these guys for a while. What they do is certainly nifty. I don't have a need to buy it, myself, but that's just me.

[Prev-I]

For EXT* there is this one:

http://www.ext2fsd.com/

[sirblackheart]

How about a NTFS (windows native) vs. ntfs3-g vs. Btrfs vs. WinBtrfs benchmark?

[audir8]

Is there something for cryptsetup on windows? possibly through WSL? I've looked various times in the past only to come up empty. Almost all storage I have requires cryptsetup luksOpen first, so...

[nemequ]

Is there something for cryptsetup on windows? possibly through WSL? I've looked various times in the past only to come up empty. Almost all storage I have requires cryptsetup luksOpen first, so...

IIRC cryptsetup supports TrueCrypt these days… If you need something that works on both Windows and Linux perhaps you could switch to that.

[davidbepo]

for that i use ext2fsd

[tildearrow]

albeit without commercial support.

Michael Do you really mean that, or do you mean "write" support?

[audir8]

IIRC cryptsetup supports TrueCrypt these days… If you need something that works on both Windows and Linux perhaps you could switch to that.

Seems like https://github.com/t-d-k/LibreCrypt might work.

[kaszak]

How about a NTFS (windows native) vs. ntfs3-g vs. Btrfs vs. WinBtrfs benchmark?

NTFS-3g is going to be dead last cuz it's FUSE-based.