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

[Brenton Ross]

I am not sure that changing the file system and/or the underlying
operating system is going to help in circumstances like the ANU had.
My reading of what has been written in the media gives the impression
that the flaw was that their email client has a preview window that
will happily execute stuff in incoming emails.[OK, "happily" is
probably a bit harsh - MS have been improving their security over the
years. However it was apparently tricked into executing something.]
It appears that users want to be able to move complex multi-media files
to any machine they happen to be using.I suspect this is something that
is not compatible with the concept of security.
Brenton

On Tue, 2019-10-08 at 16:20 +1100, 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 advancesteve
> 
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