Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 17:37:31 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: Fergus Cameron <cameron@argus-systems.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reading files from win Message-ID: <20011010173731.B3510@straylight.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <20011010151846.C1834@dedog.argus-systems.co.uk>; from cameron@argus-systems.com on Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:18:46PM %2B0100 References: <000c01c14b11$f07c74e0$1198e693@kolej.vslib.cz> <20011009085945.C27344@netapp.com> <20011010151846.C1834@dedog.argus-systems.co.uk>
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On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:18:46PM +0100, Fergus Cameron wrote: > On 09.10-08:59, brian o'shea wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 09:14:56AM +0200, Martin Vana wrote: > > > hi, > > > is there any utility that can read a bsd FS from win/dos? > > > thank you > > > > None that I have heard of. If it's really important that you access the > > filesystem from Windows and you have a lot of CPU and memory to spare, > > you could run VMware [1] on Windows with FreeBSD running in a virtual > > machine. It's kind of a round-about way to do it, but it would probably > > work. > > don't think so, you still won't be able to read the BSD file system as vmware > does not host this in native (NTFS/FAT/FAT32 . . .) file system as far > as i am aware. it uses a single large file to emulate (much like loopback > image) or a disk partition (same a multi-boot). > > p.s. not actually run it on win so i could be wrong but that's my > understanding > > you can, however, use ftp or other network transport between the file > systems - perhaps that would be enough? I've done this with Samba on FreeBSD under VMware on Windows, and it... well.. it worked.. and that's about as much as I can say. You can forget about performance. I've heard that there were some non-real-time, Explorer-like programs which could read UFS/FFS and display it in an Explorer-like window to mess with. I don't remember names though. G'luck, Peter -- If this sentence were in Chinese, it would say something else. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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