how to access xfs partition from windows

Yeah FAT32 won't work for you then. That's the same reason a lot of people don't use FAT32 now... the 4GB filesize is just a bit too small. If it were 8GB or 16GB per file, then it would be fine for most people.

XFS and JFS are both very good with large files (in terms of speed). ext3 isn't as good but it's not bad. I don't think JFS has windows support either, but I'm not sure... if it does, it is faster than ext3 or ntfs by a good margin on large files and also has very low cpu usage. Reiser is horrible on large files, don't even look there. Reiser is best for huge numbers of tiny files.

I actually use XFS on my mythtv backend as the files are all pretty big. That PC only has Linux though, so I've never run into issues trying to make Windows read the drive.

Disclaimer:
I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THIS DRIVER.

Ok after some googling it seems that there use to be a driver for XFS in windows. http://web.archive.org/web/20080213164556/http://www.crossmeta.com/ , direct download think, http://web.archive.org/web/20080213164556/http://www.crossmeta.com/downloads/crossmeta-add-1_1.zip

Now if you google crossmeta xfs drive you get a lot of people complaining and a lot of bits and pieces of information. I don't know how well this will work at all, and use it at your own risk, but hey it's something.

gsrcrxsi said:

i am using a full version actually. i have VMware Workstation 6.5.1 i created a VM, loaded ubuntu, but i just cant see the other drive. its not a matter of it not being mounted, the partition manager (GParted) cant even see it. i wasnt sure if it was a setting in VMware or not. if workstation just *cant* do it, ill take a look at virtualbox.

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It is a VMware setting. By default, it only mounts the image file that acts as your drive in the VM. You need to open the VM properties, and allow it to access the XFS-formatted disk directly. It will likely tell you that you really don't want to do that, but in this case, you do want to do that

gsrcrxsi said:

yea, some of the files are 5+GB. avg file size is like 4.5GB. so a filesystem that can only do up to 4 wont work. i really would like to keep everything XFS though because its very good with large files.

im gonna try out the dvdfab + dvdshrink combo in wine. ill report back.

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If it turns out that you end up using ext2/3 then maybe try Explore2fs, I've used this particular method, works well.

dvdshrink seems to be working quite well and its going MUCH faster than DVDfab does. dvdfab was recopying the file and then separating out the movie. while DVD shrink seems to be able to just take the ISO and cut out the movie directly. it only takes about 1-2 minutes with DVDshrink as opposed to 10+ with DVDfab. DVD fab fux0red some of my movies too. i only lost like 4 of them though, they are replaceable.

Maybe I'm oversimplifiying it but I'd just toss the drive in my Windows machine and Samba it.

Windows can't share it if it can't read it...

Do you mean toss it in your Mac or Linux PC? (Can Macs even read XFS?)