ext? as fat or ntfs?

[Ed]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Ryan Rix<phrkonaleash at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri 17 July 2009 6:32:17 pm der.hans wrote:
>> moin moin,
>>
>> is it possible to setup a thumb drive with a large
>> ext2/ext3/ext4/btrfs/xfs/jfs/reiserfs/whateverfs partition, but in such a
>> way that when attached to an m$ box it'll show up as some sort of fat or
>> ntfs filesystem? Maybe have a small fat automount partition with samba on
>> it that can read and export the free software filesystem?
>>
>> ciao,
>>
>> der.hans
>
> If you don't have admin rights, there's no way.
> Outside of that, you could, mayhaps, use ext2IFS, with a lot of hacking.
>

two partitions and anacron running  rsync? or something like that,
maybe tied into the hotplug or the mount sub-systems.