Using sdcard on Windows or Linux OS

[Tuxera-TonyQ]

[Originally asked 2023-01-18]
Is there is a way to read an SD memory card written with reliance edge on a windows or Linux OS?

[Tuxera-TonyQ]

Reliance Edge has two utilities that allow the transfer of an entire set of files to and from your removable media on a Windows PC. While these tools do not allow single file level access, they do allow you to populate a Reliance Edge disk from Windows from a path on your host, and copy files from your device to a host directory.

The utility to copy files to Windows from your removable media is called the Image Copier, and is available only in the Reliance Edge Commercial kit.

The utility to copy files to your removable media from Windows is called the Image Builder.

These utilities are both discussed in Chapter 14 of the Reliance Edge Developer's guide.

Reliance Edge also provides a FUSE (File System in User Space) driver for Linux, which gives you the ability to do more of what you are asking directly. Here is the manual entry for that specific feature, which is available in both the open source and commercial kits:

14.7 Linux FUSE Implementation
Reliance Edge can be installed as a FUSE driver (File System in User Space) on Linux. This allows a user to mount a Reliance Edge volume within a folder so that it appears like a native Linux file system. The contents of the volume may then be accessed with a file browser or any other Linux program.

Note that the FUSE implementation depends on libfuse-dev, and it is built as a separate make target from the other host tools listed here (make redfuse). When built, an executable (redfuse) is produced, which can be run to install Reliance Edge as a FUSE driver.

The FUSE implementation is not available on Windows. Currently the FUSE implementation only supports the Reliance Edge POSIX-like API.