Re: File system for linux and windows

[Joe <joe@jretrading.com>]

Bhasker C V wrote:
> Camaleón wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:28:26 +0000, Bhasker C V wrote:
> >
> > (...)
> >
> >  
> > >   So, the question... what FS to use which is good and reliable in both
> > > windows and also linux  ?
> > >
> > >   Is there any file system in linux which can work in windows also
> > > (meaning it can be read and optionally written-to in windows even if the
> > > FS is not in a partition) ?
> > >     
> >
> > I wonder if nowadays UDF could be used to deal with this problematic :-?
> >   
> Tried it. UDF from udftools(1.0.0b2 ) on etch creates an UDF which is 
> not working with windows.
> I am then left only with an option to use the backup only with linux. 
> For data in windows, ntfs partitions
> can be mounted in linux and then copied over to the backup disk. The 
> external disk can _only_ be used in
> linux and not in windows.

There are many UDF versions, and if Windows is not natively able to read 
one, it is possible that Adaptec's InCD or Roxio's DirectCD may be able 
to. They supported UDF on Windows long before Microsoft did. I was 
writing UDF to CD-Rs on Windows 98 with DirectCD.

--
Joe