Noone's interested in this? Are you kidding me? ;-) Well, in the end I got this thing running and I now have read and *write* access to an XFS partition from Windows.
If someone else want's to give it a try I have a couple of suggestions: 1. After installing the core server and the add-on filesystems reboot your machine anyway. 2. The cxvfs services will not be loaded automatically afterwards - which is good because it allows you to make a copy of the rootfs.img file created during the installation process. Why? Because I had faced a couple of blue screens during the test phase when trying to restart cxvfs services and unmounting partitions. Not hard reproducable though. After such a failure the cxvfs server wants you to fschk rootfs.img which simply does not work somehow. Does not matter - rootfs.img is just an entry point to your actual Linux partition. 3. To mount your stuff use a script like this: @echo off if exist v:\ goto :DONE e: cd \programme\crossmeta copy /y rootfs.img.org rootfs.img net start cxvfsmgr net start xfs set path=%path%;e:\programme\crossmeta\v-drive\bin mount -a mount -t xfs -o ro /dev/da0s3 /mnt :DONE Where E: is the drive where Windows resides, rootfs.img.org is a virgin rootfs.img as mentioned in 2., /dev/da0s3 is my /dev/hda4 and finally e: \programme\crossmeta\v-drive is a copy of the content of V:\ - i.e. the virtual drive that cxvfs creates when loaded. Stabilitiy? I neither do need the write capability nor the NFS server emulation. I only tested write access once - which worked - but can't say anything about reliablility. What I do is mounting foreign partitions on demand, retrieving data I need and leaving them mounted until I shut down Windows. For that crossmeta didn't give me any headaches yet. Have fun! Am Freitag, den 04.11.2005, 07:46 +0100 schrieb Heinz Sporn: > Hi all! > > Yesterday I stumbled over this project Crossmeta at > http://www.crossmeta.com/ that claims nothing less but having developed > Windows filesystem drivers for EXT, XFS, Reiser and so forth. I > immediatley downloaded everything that is there to download (for free) > but having difficulties to get it run. > > Unfortunately after googling around for a bit I am not quite sure in > what shape this project actually is. So I'm wondering if there's someone > out there who is willing and able to help me out. > > To the problem: > > I strictly followed the instructions in crossmeta_jumpstart.pdf and > everything installed fine so far. What I don't understand are the > procedures one has to perform to mount an existing Linux XFS partition. > It looks as if you'd only have to run something like > "mount -t extfs /dev/daxxx /mnt" in a DOS-box but the only thing I get > is "mount: /mnt" and dmesg shows a couple of XFS related errors although > I properly installed the filesystem add-ons - xfs.sys and the others are > there. So in the moment I really have no clue how to continue. > > Regards > > spox > > -- > Mit freundlichen Grüßen > > Heinz Sporn > > SPORN it-freelancing > > Mobile: ++43 (0)699 / 127 827 07 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://www.sporn-it.com > Snail: Steyrer Str. 20 > A-4540 Bad Hall > Austria / Europe > -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Heinz Sporn SPORN it-freelancing Mobile: ++43 (0)699 / 127 827 07 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.sporn-it.com Snail: Steyrer Str. 20 A-4540 Bad Hall Austria / Europe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
