ReiserFS on Windows
I had a predicament, I had a 15Gb archive file on my ReiserFS 3 partition and I need to copy it to an NTFS partition on the same machine. Well I assumed there would be an NTFS driver for Linux and there are two. The first one is included in the Linux kernel (2.6) but only supports writing to an existing file and only if it is the same size after the write - not really much use. The second uses the Windows drivers under emulation (al la WINE) but the write speed I was getting was only 250Kb/s which would have taken a day.
Therefore I decided to approach the problem from a different angle and look for a Reiser driver for Windows and I found rfstool. This allowed me to read and copy data off my ReiserFS to my NTFS when booted into Windows.
It’s a shame the MS don’t open up the NTFS specification in the name of interoperability, they certainly seem to pay lipservice to interop. but no dice here.