On 2003.12.04 15:50 Brad Bendily wrote: > > I read the /. article, that's why I was wondering about > reading LOCAL linux partitions from within Windows. > I could have searched for one, but I figured SOMEONE > would have at least tried it by now. I mean I KNOW > some of you use windows from time to time. > I figured someone would have tried this before me. > > The /. article got me thinking though. What if these > flash card compaines wanted to use ext3 or something > for their file systems instead of FAT. Well Windows > doesn't natively read ext3(and probably never will) > so what option do the companies have than to pay > MS the license fee for the FAT file system? > Another MS way of taking control! Arg!!!!!!!! > > BB
I hope they use ext2 for CF and it would not be hard. People usually buy CF with a device that uses it. It would not be hard for companies that sell those devices to write software that would read ext2 file systems, after all ext2 is free and openenly published. Only severly brain dead DRM versions of M$ windoze would keep little camera programs from accessing the hardware they need to read CF. If the normal method of of reading cameras and other devices holds, no sofware outside of the camera would be required at all. The camera would just read the card and give the results through firewire or usb. I already use ext2 for CF between my laptop and my Zaurus because it saves all the file system information, while DOS wrecks it. I've read that CF has neat little kludges in place that keeps FAT from burning out the FAT table partition, but it does not seem to slow down ext2. In any case, it's so much easier to read the windoze junk from the Linux side that I'm not interested in a Win32 utility to read anything but the goofy devices I once bought. Free software is so much more robust and so superior at moving files accross the network that it only makes sense to use your windows partition only when you have to and then move the results where you need them to be for further manipulation and sharing. Running it Windows more than that, especially using it for browsing or email, will have you looking for your install disks.
