[clug] Using Ext2/3/4 filesystem on Windows

[George at Clug]

Steve,

What is the issue that you want to solve?

Is the question about security or about reliability?

I am not sure what it is that you are asking. 

You mentioned "security" and when it comes to security three things come to mind for me.
1) Nothing is "secure", and never consider anything to be secure, it is just some things are less secure than others.
2) People are the biggest security risk, whether intentional or unintentionally. 
3) The more people who have access the less secure it is, connect anything to the Internet and every one in the world [who have internet] potentially has access.

George.

On Tuesday, 08-10-2019 at 16:20 steve jenkin via linux wrote:
> Does anyone do this, or have seen it done ‘in anger’?
> Or are other Linux filesystems better supported on Windows?
> 
> I gave a short talk to Mac users about node-based filesystems - how Windows doesn’t do them - and how ’nodes’ trivially support “Time Machine”.
> So I was wondering about ’nodes and windows’ and was looking to explore that.
> 
> Was looking for a native file system, not FUSE.
> 
> For ~$65 a pop I could buy useful cross-system filesystems from Paragon <http://www.paragon-software.com/>
> but that’s not my preference.
> 
> I’ve found open source ext2Fsd and ext2ifs (using Windows Installable File System). 
> eg <https://thelinuxcode.com/mount-linux-partition-ext4-ext3-ext2-windows-10-8-7/>
> 
> ext2Fsd is limited to Win-8 <https://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd/>
> and I expect so is ext2IFS <http://www.fs-driver.org>
> 
> If I’m running Winders (I only have a Win-XP license) in a Virtual Machine, I could run Linux / SAMBA in another VM.
> This would work well enough for the experiments I want to try.
> 
> I think a more robust Windows Desktop can be built with a Linux-hosted VM and a POSIX-based filesystem.
> The recent successful attack on the ANU suggests institutions might be interested in more robust desktop environments soon, even now.
> 
> I’ve got an old Oracle/ SUN Virtual Box VM setup and was thinking of KVM + a new GUI manager, now that Debian supports it.
> 
> thanks in advance
> steve
> 
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