Re: [Freedos-user] : File systems with metadata support

2013-11-21 Thread zalit
On 2013-11-22 00:46, Rugxulo wrote: I suggest you just try to use a user-space program like TestDisk. I haven't used it much, but in minimal testing it did seem to access my ext3 partition correctly. Does the TestDisk solution that you mentioned give full access (i.e. both read and write) to

Re: [Freedos-user] File systems with metadata support

2013-11-20 Thread zalit
On 2013-11-20 05:45, Rugxulo wrote: I vaguely recall (but never tried) that there used to be such a (shareware?) DOS driver from Paragon Software [EDIT: IFSDRV?] that could read ext2 and some others. This would be a good solution. Only, in order to be useful such a driver should target some

Re: [Freedos-user] : File systems with metadata support

2013-11-20 Thread zalit
I probably found what I was looking for: the COMBOOTF.IMA file from Lucho utilities. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15785527/dos/lucho.html But I could not find any documentation. There is a reference to this on an unrelated forum:

[Freedos-user] File systems with metadata support

2013-11-18 Thread zalit
Hello Does FreeDOS support any file system that has customizable metadata (also known as extended attributes)? All modern file systems do. The only feature that I need is extended attributes, so I don't care about journaling or other features. Thanks Reno