Provide Windows NT4.0/2000/XP with full access to Linux Ext2 volumes
Ext2 Installable File System is a popular, free Windows program, that is part of the category Software utilities with subcategory Files and has been created by Fs-driver.
More about Ext2 Installable File System
Since we added this program to our catalog in 2005, it has already achieved 18,437 installations, and last week it gained 8 downloads.
The program version is 1.11a and the latest update happened on 11/24/2008. It's available for users with the operating system Windows 2000 and previous versions, and you can download it in English.
About the download, Ext2 Installable File System is a light software that takes up less storage than most software in the category Software utilities. It's very heavily used in some countries such as South Africa, China, and Egypt.
If you currently have Windows running and you realize that you need some files for your work which you have stored on an Ext2 volume of your Linux installation, you no longer have to shut down Windows and boot Linux!
Furthermore, Windows will now be able to handle floppy disks which have been formatted with an Ext2 file system.
The file system driver Ext2fs.sys caches file data and the file system's meta data such as directories and all the on-disk structures of the Ext2 file system. (It uses the file cache of the Windows NT operating system.) Therefore it is performant. The level of sophistication of the Ext2 file system driver's implementation is indeed comparable to Windows NT's native file system drivers.
The "Ext2 Installable File System" software package is distributed as a single executable solution, complete with all of the features. It is a setup wizard which installs and configures the Ext2 file system driver.
