[darcs-users] Heads up: breaking Windows 9x some more

[Sean]

Are we talking just FAT or FAT32 as well ?

I run some FAT32 partitions (historically because of the perceived
performance gain without NTFS's overheads)

I am happy to test darcs on FAT32 if this is helpfull.

Any particular commands ?


On 12/10/06, Eric Y. Kow <eric.kow at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 20:10:58 -0500, Nathan Gray wrote:
> > > I'm about to accept a patch by Simon Marlow which adds hard-linking
> > > support over NTFS in Windows.  Unfortunately, this rules out the use
> > > of darcs on Windows9x.
> >
> > Is the problem with Windows or with FAT filesystems?  What about
> > running off FAT from Linux, like on a USB stick?
>
> Very good question (and point)
>
> The code looks like this:
>
>     result = CreateHardLink(src, dst, NULL);
>     if (!result)
>         return 0;
>     else
>         return -2;
>
> It has have provisions for hard linking to fail, which would lead me to
> think that over FAT it would just not create hard links and that darcs
> would sitll work on FAT under Windows 2000 and above.  Care to confirm,
> Simon?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
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> Eric Kow                     http://www.loria.fr/~kow
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