Ext2Fsd
| Original author(s) | Matt Wu |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Matt Wu |
| Initial release | January 26, 2002 |
| Stable release | 0.52
/ May 11, 2014 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | C[1] |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| Available in | English, Simplified Chinese |
| Type | Installable File System |
| License | GNU GPL v2 |
| Website | www |
Ext2Fsd (short for Ext2 File System Driver) is a free Installable File System driver written in C for the Microsoft Windows operating system family. It facilitates read and write access to the ext2, ext3 and ext4 file systems.
The driver can be installed on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8,[2] Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2. Support for Windows NT was dropped in version 0.30.
The program Ext2Mgr can optionally be installed additionally to manage drive letters and such.
Features
Feature matrix
| Read | Write | Journal | dir_index | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ext2 | Yes | Yes | n/a | n/a |
| ext3 | Yes | Yes | Limited | Yes |
| ext4 | Yes | Yes | Limited | Yes |
Supported Ext3/4 features by 0.52
- flexible inode size: > 128 bytes, up to block size
- dir_index: htree directory index
- filetype: extra file mode in dentry
- large_file: files greater than 4 GiB in size are supported
- sparse_super: super block backup in group descriptor
- uninit_bg: fast fsck and group checksum
- extent: reading, writing with no extending.
- journal: only support replay for internal journal
- flex_bg: first flexible metadata group
Unsupported Ext3/4 features
- journal: log-based operations, external journal
- extent: size truncating & expanding, file deletion
- Extended file attributes (EA), Access control list (ACL) support
- symlink creation
Features to be implemented in future
- EXT3/4 features support (extents, journal)
- Documents improvement: clear and elaborate
- Performance improvement, code optimization
- Automatic check & update of new versions
- Logical Volume Manager (Linux) support, e2fsprogs porting for Windows
