If you're using Windows and if you want to access those filesystems that are used
by Linux you can use FUSE on Windows now.
"Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) is a
loadable
kernel module
for
Unix-like
computer
operating
systems
, that allows non-privileged users to create their own
file
systems
without editing the
kernel
code.
This is achieved by running the file system code in
user
space
, while the FUSE module only provides a "bridge" to the actual kernel
interfaces. FUSE was officially merged into the mainstream
Linux
kernel
tree in kernel version 2.6.14.
FUSE is particularly useful for writing
virtual
file systems
. Unlike traditional filesystems, which essentially save
data to and retrieve data from disk, virtual filesystems do not actually store data
themselves. They act as a view or translation of an existing filesystem or storage
device. In principle, any resource available to FUSE implementation can be exported
as a file system. See
Examples
for
some of the possible applications." (Wikipedia)
There is a version of FUSE for Mac and of course for linux and now with coLinux there's
a chance to get the FUSE world onto the Windows machines.
"For our task we will use coLinux. coLinux is a modified linux kernel that can
be executed as an application or a service in the Windows environment. The web page
of the project is http://www.colinux.org/."
You'll find a very detailed how-to there.
Source 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace
Source 2: http://polishlinux.org/linux/ext3-reiserfs-xfs-in-windows-thanks-to-colinux/
Source 3: http://www.colinux.org/
