Ext3 instead of Ext4

[Nils Kassube]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
>  The only reason that I could fathom that they said that is
>  because there is a Windows ext3 driver, so if you want to access the
>  Linux partition from Windows you'd need ext3. However, the ext3
>  driver would probably work for reading from ext4 as well, as
>  backward compatibility was a design goal.

But the backward compatibility seems to be limited. From 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4>:

| The ext3 file system is partially forward compatible with ext4, that
| is, an ext4 filesystem can be mounted as an ext3 partition (using
| "ext3" as the filesystem type when mounting). However, if the ext4
| partition uses extents (a major new feature of ext4), then the ability
| to mount the file system as ext3 is lost.

Therefore I'm not so sure an ext4 partition could be used with the 
Windows ext3 driver.


Nils