Persistent disk and Windows Interoperability

[bvacaliuc]

One thing that is not handled well: What if someone wants to take the persistent disk out and put it in a Windows machine? If they did that, they could not get their files. There are some tools for Windows to read the linux-filesystems:
http://superuser.com/questions/311934/how-to-read-ext2-from-windows-7-64-bit

Seems like there are two:
http://www.fs-driver.org/index.html
http://www.ext2fsd.com/

The first is a person's masters thesis project from 2002 and freeware, the second is an open-source project that got started in 2001. Both appear to be actively developed still. Though I would suggest staying-away from ext2fsd because of these recent comments.

Is this enough? Do you all think I should try to find a way to make the data stored by simple_ra available on Windows natively (without any other software)?

[bvacaliuc]

I have tested Ext2 IFS for Windows and it works great. (It was the person's masters thesis project.). I think this is the way to go, totally.

I picked the capability to Enable Write and chose Simple in the installer:

On the second screen, I chose Assign Drive Letter automatically...:

Afterward and without reboot, I was greeted with access to my persistent disk. Very nice.