[mythtv-users] Multi-gigabyte shared r/w partitions

[Kevin Kuphal]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Calvin Harrigan <charriglists at bellsouth.net
> wrote:

> I've been running mythtv for at least 5 years now, I'm happy as a clam with
> it.  Recently I became interested in renting movies online via
> itunes/netflix/etc.  Unfortunately none of these run in linux, so I
> installed windows XP on my mythtv box ( I know, the horror, the hardware
> didn't even know what windows was until that day.).  Now I have a dual boot
> machine that works quite well.  The problem is that the OSes, swap, boot
> partitions are on smaller system drive while the media is stored on a single
> partition 750GB EXT3 drive.  I'm looking for a way for windows to r/w to the
> ext3 partition or at least read without having linux run the file check
> every time I boot into windows.  I've tried Ext2 IFS driver found at
> http://www.fs-driver.org but that doesn't work because the inodes in the
> ext3 partition is > 128 bytes.  I'm not willing/able to find somewhere to
> store 500 gigs of data, reformat, and copy back.  I was thinking that
> someone has had to come across such a scenario before and hopefully found a
> solution.  Are there any other file systems that I can use that is r/w from
> windows and linux?  FAT32 is obviously not an option.


It'd be nice if you have a small machine or something you could run
Openfiler on and share the partition via iSCSI to either boot.

Kevin
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