December 8, 20241 yr Hi All, I have have some files on one of my array drives which I want to use directly in windows 11 (not over network). I pulled the drive and installed in the W11 machine but the XFS file system is not natively recognized by windows. I could format it back to NTFS, but the issue is I don't have enough space available to temporarily transfer the files to (and I'd also have to transfer everything twice). Ideally I'd like to be able to mount the drives in order to be able to read and write to them in windows like any normal drive, but then when I'm finished, reconnect them back to the array. Is this possible and if so, will there be a performance bottleneck? If it's not possible, whats my options? Thank You
December 8, 20241 yr Community Expert There are a few commercial tools that can read xfs on Windows, not sure if there's a free option, try googling it.
December 8, 20241 yr Community Expert 2 hours ago, Dominoes0522 said: when I'm finished, reconnect them back to the array. Is this possible and if so, will there be a performance bottleneck? The one that I can see is that you will have to perform a parity rebuild on the entire array! That is a about 2-3 hours per TB of parity size.
December 8, 20241 yr Author Thanks guys, I've decided it's probably easier to just copy the files I need in batches over to some spare space I have on the windows drive.
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