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Noone's interested in this? Are you kidding me? ;-) |
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Well, in the end I got this thing running and I now have read and |
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*write* access to an XFS partition from Windows. |
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If someone else want's to give it a try I have a couple of suggestions: |
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1. After installing the core server and the add-on filesystems reboot |
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your machine anyway. |
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2. The cxvfs services will not be loaded automatically afterwards - |
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which is good because it allows you to make a copy of the rootfs.img |
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file created during the installation process. Why? Because I had faced a |
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couple of blue screens during the test phase when trying to restart |
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cxvfs services and unmounting partitions. Not hard reproducable though. |
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After such a failure the cxvfs server wants you to fschk rootfs.img |
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which simply does not work somehow. Does not matter - rootfs.img is just |
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an entry point to your actual Linux partition. |
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3. To mount your stuff use a script like this: |
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@echo off |
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if exist v:\ goto :DONE |
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e: |
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cd \programme\crossmeta |
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copy /y rootfs.img.org rootfs.img |
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net start cxvfsmgr |
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net start xfs |
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set path=%path%;e:\programme\crossmeta\v-drive\bin |
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mount -a |
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mount -t xfs -o ro /dev/da0s3 /mnt |
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:DONE |
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Where E: is the drive where Windows resides, rootfs.img.org is a virgin |
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rootfs.img as mentioned in 2., /dev/da0s3 is my /dev/hda4 and finally e: |
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\programme\crossmeta\v-drive is a copy of the content of V:\ - i.e. the |
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virtual drive that cxvfs creates when loaded. |
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Stabilitiy? |
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I neither do need the write capability nor the NFS server emulation. I |
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only tested write access once - which worked - but can't say anything |
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about reliablility. What I do is mounting foreign partitions on demand, |
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retrieving data I need and leaving them mounted until I shut down |
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Windows. For that crossmeta didn't give me any headaches yet. |
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Have fun! |
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Am Freitag, den 04.11.2005, 07:46 +0100 schrieb Heinz Sporn: |
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> Hi all! |
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> |
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> Yesterday I stumbled over this project Crossmeta at |
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> http://www.crossmeta.com/ that claims nothing less but having developed |
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> Windows filesystem drivers for EXT, XFS, Reiser and so forth. I |
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> immediatley downloaded everything that is there to download (for free) |
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> but having difficulties to get it run. |
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> |
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> Unfortunately after googling around for a bit I am not quite sure in |
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> what shape this project actually is. So I'm wondering if there's someone |
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> out there who is willing and able to help me out. |
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> |
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> To the problem: |
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> |
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> I strictly followed the instructions in crossmeta_jumpstart.pdf and |
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> everything installed fine so far. What I don't understand are the |
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> procedures one has to perform to mount an existing Linux XFS partition. |
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> It looks as if you'd only have to run something like |
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> "mount -t extfs /dev/daxxx /mnt" in a DOS-box but the only thing I get |
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> is "mount: /mnt" and dmesg shows a couple of XFS related errors although |
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> I properly installed the filesystem add-ons - xfs.sys and the others are |
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> there. So in the moment I really have no clue how to continue. |
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> |
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> Regards |
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> |
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> spox |
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> |
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> -- |
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> Mit freundlichen Grüßen |
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> |
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> Heinz Sporn |
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> SPORN it-freelancing |
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Email: heinz.sporn@××××××××.com |
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