On 5 May 2001, J C Lawrence <clawat_private> wrote: > On Sat, 5 May 2001 09:21:40 -0400 John Mellon <jmellonat_private> > wrote: > > > "Brousseau, Claudia (CA - Montreal)" wrote: > > >> I've got a disk with linux OS. I would like to inspect files with > >> Windows environment. Do you know any software who do that ? > > > Claudia, We have recently found a very interesting product called > > "Captain Nemo" located at http://www.runtime.org/. This product > > allows connecting a drive containing the Unix/Linux, NT or Novell > > operating system directly to a Windows operating system machine and > > accessing, viewing, printing and copying the files as if they were > > on another Windows drive on the computer. The reviews that we have > > heard are outstanding for this product. > > This area is murkier than this. Linux now has near half a dozen > filesystem types which can and are commonly used for local storage: > > Ext2 > ReiserFS (which actually covers two disk formats) > XFS > JFS > Coda Actually, the Linux drivers for XFS (developed by SGI) and JFS (under development by IBM) are still at experimental stages, and I wouldn't qualify their use as "common". Coda is not a local filesystem, but something more or less similar to NFS; see http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/ I'm not sure what you mean by ReiserFS covering "two disk formats". AFAICT, the only filesystems currently in wide use on Linux seem to be Ext2 and ReiserFS, with Ext3 (a backward-compatible extension to Ext2, pushed forward by RedHat) gaining some popularity. > Beyond that there are another half dozen filesystems available under > Linux but which are not in common use. This is true. Still, aside from the ones already mentioned above, most of the filesystems supported by Linux are either legacies (Minix, Ext, Xiafs), or foreign ones (VFAT, NTFS, OS/2 HPFS, QNX4, Coherent, Ufs etc.). I doubt anybody in their right mind would actually use any of those these days for anything else than mounting foreign disks. > Nemo supports only Ext2. Not knowing anything about Nemo, I can't comment on that. Regards, Liviu Daia -- Dr. Liviu Daia e-mail: Liviu.Daiaat_private Institute of Mathematics web page: http://www.imar.ro/~daia of the Romanian Academy PGP key: http://www.imar.ro/~daia/daia.asc
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