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Re: cygwin on ext2
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 19:12:53 +0200
- Subject: Re: cygwin on ext2
- References: <20031015165513.GA6024@DotsAndLoops.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 12:55:13PM -0400, e-bone wrote:
> Just curious,
> has anyone tried to run cygwin on an ext2 partition using
> one of the ext2 filesystem drivers available for windows ?
>
> like the one from paragon e.g.
>
> i imagine there is nothing to gain, since cygwin was designed for
> fat/ntfs, but i thought maybe extra functionality could be provided
> if cygwin had a "run on ext2" functional mode.
I'm not aware of any extra functionality on ext2 useful for Cygwin,
which isn't already provided by ntfs in one way or another.
Corinna
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