Ext2Fsd
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The driver can be installed on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8,[2] Windows 10, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2.[3] Support for Windows NT was dropped in version 0.30.[4]
The program Ext2Mgr can optionally be installed additionally to manage drive letters and such.
Contents
Features
Feature matrix
| Read | Write | Journal | dir_index | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ext2 |  |
|
N/A | N/A |
| ext3 | |
|
Limited | |
| ext4 | |
|
Limited | |
Supported Ext3/4 features by 0.65[5]
- flexible inode size: > 128 bytes, up to block size
- dir_index: htree directory index
- filetype: extra file mode in dentry
- large_file: > 4G files supported
- sparse_super: super block backup in group descriptor
- uninit_bg: fast fsck and group checksum
- extent: full support with extending and shrinking.
- journal: only support replay for internal journal
- flex_bg: first flexible metadata group
- symlink and hardlink
- Mount-as-user: specified uid/gid supported
Unsupported Ext3/4 features
- journal: log-based operations, external journal
- Extended file attributes (EA), Access control list (ACL) support
Features to be implemented in future
- Extents management improvement
- EA and ACL security checking
See also
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