1, ext3 journal check and replay implemented. If the journal is
        not empty ext2fsd will replay the journal and make the file
        system consistent as an ext2 file system.

    2, flexible-inode-size supported. recent Linux are using 256-byte
        inode that fails 0.45 and before to show all the files.

    3, FIXME: 2 minor issues that mislead EditPlus. EditPlus is always
        trying to open any file with directory_only flag set to judge
        whether the target is a directory or file, when the file isn't s
        directory, the open request should be denied. But Ext2Fsd 0.45
        and before doesn't. Another issue is that ext2 file time on disk
        has different precision against windows (1 second vs 100 nano
        second), which causes EditPlus thinks the file is being changed.

    4, FIXME: a severe bug (likely happen on win2k system) which cause
        dirty caches missed and slow down the whole system. 

    5, many other minor changes: bulk block allocation/release, possible
        inode allocation dead-loop when all inodes are used out, Ext2Mgr
        win2k support, other performance improvements.

Features to be implemented in future: 
 
    1, LVM support 
    2, Documents improvement: clear and elaborate 
    3, Performance improvement, code optimization 
    4, EXT3 features support (journal, htree) 
    5, Automatic check & update of new versions 
 
    Since 0.38, Ext2fsd is much stable even under heavy i/o
    loads, both for reading and writing. Performance and
    stability are highly, improved especially stability. A new
    and strong era of  Ext2Fsd in product shape is coming :) 
 
WARNINGS: 
 
    The driver may crash your system and ruin your data
    unexpectedly, since there might be software conflicts
    and I could only test it on some of the popular platforms.
    You should use it with care and use it at your own risk! 

    1, set hidden attribute for all files starting with "." 
    2, update cache window size when writing to file end 
    3, reaper resources allocated during file creation    

Features to be implemented in future: 
 
    1, Documents improvement: clear and elaborate 
    2, Performance improvement, code optimization 
    3, EXT3 features support (journal, htree) 
    4, LVM support 
    5, Automatic check & update of new versions 
 
    Since 0.38, Ext2fsd is much stable even under heavy i/o
    loads, both for reading and writing. Performance and
    stability are highly, improved especially stability. A new
    and strong era of  Ext2Fsd in product shape is coming :) 
 
WARNINGS: 
 
    The driver may crash your system and ruin your data
    unexpectedly, since there might be software conflicts
    and I could only test it on some of the popular platforms.
    You should use it with care and use it at your own risk! 

    Ext2Fsd:  1, hidden/system attribute handling
                    2, LastWriteTime/LastAccessTime update

    Ext2Mgr:  1, Added manifest to cope with Vista UAC
                    2, Show driver/app versions in About dialog

Features to be implemented in future: 
 
    1, Documents improvement: clear and elaborate 
    2, Performance improvement, code optimization 
    3, EXT3 features support (journal, htree) 
    4, LVM support 
    5, Automatic check & update of new versions 
 
    Since 0.38, Ext2fsd is much stable even under heavy i/o
    loads, both for reading and writing. Performance and
    stability are highly, improved especially stability. A new
    and strong era of  Ext2Fsd in product shape is coming :) 
 

    1, Ext2Fsd: Updated codepage encodings to latest Linux kernel 
    2, Ext2Mgr: Added Chinese translation which is in high demand 
    3, Ext2Mgr: Enhanced mountpoints management for removable devices 

Features to be implemented in future: 
 
    1, Documents improvement: clear and elaborate 
    2, Performance improvement, code optimization 
    3, EXT3 features support (journal, htree) 
    4, LVM support 
    5, Automatic check & update of new versions 
 
    Since 0.38, Ext2fsd is much stable even under heavy i/o loads, 
    both for reading and writing. Performance and stability are 
    highly, improved especially stability. A new and strong era of 
    Ext2Fsd in product shape is coming :) 
 

    1, Ext2Fsd: Updated codepage encodings to latest Linux kernel 
    2, Ext2Mgr: Added Chinese translation which is in high demand 
    3, Ext2Mgr: Enhanced mountpoints management for removable devices 

Features to be implemented in future: 
 
    1, Documents improvement: clear and elaborate 
    2, Performance improvement, code optimization 
    3, EXT3 features support (journal, htree) 
    4, LVM support 
    5, Pnp and removable (USB) disk support 
    6, Automatic check & update of new versions 
 
    Since 0.38, Ext2fsd is much stable even under heavy i/o loads, 
    both for reading and writing. Performance and stability are 
    highly, improved especially stability. A new and strong era of 
    Ext2Fsd in product shape is coming :) 
 

    1, Documents improvement: clear and elaborate
    2, Performance improvement, code optimization
    3, EXT3 features support (journal, htree)
    4, LVM support
    5, Pnp and removable (USB) disk support
    6, Automatic check & update of new versions
    7, Update codepage codings to latest Linux kernel

    Ext2fsd 0.40 is much stable even under heavy i/o loads, both for
    reading and writing. Performance and stability are highly improved,
    especially stability. A new and strong era of Ext2Fsd in product
    shape is coming :)

    Happy New Year !

    1, Documents improvement: clear and elaborate
    2, Performance improvement, code optimization
    3, EXT3 features support (journal, htree)
    4, LVM support
    5, Pnp and removable (USB) disk support
    6, Automatic check & update of new versions 

    Ext2fsd 0.39 is much stable even under heavy i/o loads, both for
    reading and writing. Performance and stability are highly improved,
    especially stability. A new and strong era of Ext2Fsd in product
    shape is coming :)

Happy New Year !

    1, Documents improvement: clear and elaborate
    2, Performance improvement, code optimization
    3, EXT3 features support (journal, htree)
    4, LVM support
    5, Pnp and removable (USB) disk support
    6, Automatic check & update of new versions

Ext2fsd 0.38 is much stable even under heavy i/o loads, both for
reading and writing. Performance and stability are highly improved,
especially stability. A new and strong era of Ext2Fsd in product shape
is coming :)

Happy New Year !

    1, Documents improvement: clear and elaborate
    2, Performance improvement, code optimization
    3, EXT3 features support (journal, htree)
    4, LVM support

Ext2fsd 0.37 is much stable even under heavy i/o loads, both for
reading and writing. Performance and stability are highly improved,
especially stability. A new and strong era of Ext2Fsd in product shape
is coming :)

    1, Documents improvement: clear and elaborate
    2, Performance improvement, code optimization
    3, EXT3 features support (journal, htree)

Ext2fsd 0.36 is much stable even under heavy i/o loads, both for
reading and writing. Performance and stability are highly improved,
especially stability. A new and strong era of Ext2Fsd is coming :)

Features Newly Implemented:

    1, Symbolic link support on most operations but creating 
    2, Property settings per volume, more flexible
    3, Hiding files with specified prefix and suffix
    4, Different implements on driver letter assignment
    5, CDROM support to mount CD/DVD burned in EXT2 format
    6, "Move and Replace (overwrite)" support
    7, Install Ext2Mgr as a service

Features to be implemented in future:

    1, Documents improvement: clear and elaborate
    2, Performance improvement, code optimization
    3, EXT3 features support (journal, htree)

Modifications from V0.30:

Bugs Fixed:

    1, Wrong ERESOURCE referenced in Ext2DeleteFile
    2, Stale path name referenced for directory notification
    3, Codepage names inconsistent between Ext2Fsd and Ext2Mgr

Features Newly Implemented:

    1, Vista supported 

Supporting OS:

    1, 32 bits: Windows 2000, windows xp, windows 2003
        64 bits: Windows xp, windows 2003
    2, NT4 system is no longer supported.
    3, Vista: you need disable system's driver signature checking

Modifications from V0.30:

Bugs Fixed:

    1, Wrong ERESOURCE referenced in Ext2DeleteFile
    2, Stale path name referenced for directory notification
    3, Codepage names inconsistent between Ext2Fsd and Ext2Mgr

Features Newly Implemented:

    1, Vista supported 

Supporting OS:

    1, 32 bits: Windows 2000, windows xp, windows 2003
        64 bits: Windows xp, windows 2003
    2, NT4 system is no longer supported.
    3, Vista: you need disable system's driver signature checking

Tasks to do next step for 0.26:

1, codepage / read-only attributes support per mounting
2, network sharing: oplock support to be implemented

Thanks to:

    David Ho "davidHo_at_nanometrics.ca"
    Jared Breland "jbreland_at_legroom.net"

Thanks to:

1, Zhoujinggao <zhoujingg@sohu.com> for his help.

Thanks to:

1, AG <andrew_golovnia@ukr.net> for the patch about Ext2Fsr and advices on Ext2Fsd.
2, Zhoujinggao <zhoujingg@sohu.com> for the clue about Mcb management.
3, Laurent <linuxtransition@free.fr> for his link (in French).
4, Many Ext2Fsd users. I also say my sorry that I didn't answer some mails from you.

Thanks to I+ME <http://www.IME-ACTIA.DE> group for their support on Ext2Fsd.

I'm very busy these days. There are lots of mails that I could not answer at the present time. Here I say my sincere sorry to the authors. I owe my thanks to you all for your support on Ext2Fsd. I'll try my best to provide a good tool !

But there are still many people concerning it: submitting patches, mailing advices, sharing experiences, encouraging, etc.

There are too many people to whom I need owe my thanks. Here I only introduce one: Ioannis Barkas <risc4all __at__ yahoo __dot__ com>.

He sent me dozens of  mails and invaluable advices on the project building. His great patience of checking the typo errors of the webs and project files, is highly appreciated. I also want to say sorry to him that I only answered one-tenth of his mails.

Anyway, Ext2Fsd is going on it's way to a new milestone: version 0.30 with a "nice" and convenient management program.

It's much stable for normal works, with writing access enabled. I use it on my own computer all along. But now the performance comes to be an issue when there's heavy I/O operations. That's the thing to do next step.

Matt

Oct. 21, 2006

Now the latest version 0.22a is much stable even for some heavy i/o operations. :-). The progress seems a bit slower (beyond your tolerance ?), but the small project is still on it's way.  And I'm very glad that more and more people are concerned about it and trying to help to quick up the development of  Ext2Fsd. 

You surely bring the lights to my and our dream of a stable and fully functioned Ext3Fsd :-(

Matt at Oct. 31, 2004

The version 0.09 does not support ext3 yet. If your system is ext3/journal, it will disable writing support.

Warning first: As I said before, It's not a stable version. It may crash your system and ruin your data. You should use it with care and at your own risk!

I recommend you create a little ext2 partition as a swap between winnt and linux or use an image file with the help of bosse's filedisk . You can write easily to the "swap" under windows system, with little possibility of damaging your system data. 

If you insist on useing ext2fsd on you system partition, you should run
e2fsck to make sure all the data are consistent.

Matt at Jul. 25, 2002

Matt at May. 14, 2002

Those days I am entertained by other projects. So I have no enough time and also an aspiring mood to care for ext2fsd.

The other reason, I find a severe bug, but the bug is due to the construction of ext2fsd. To recover such bugs, it is necessary to reconstruct ext2fsd......

Matt at Apr. 20, 2002