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

[Radosław Grzanka]

2006/12/10, Nathan Gray <kolibrie at graystudios.org>:
> On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 09:32:19PM +0100, Eric Y. Kow 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?

Yeah, breaking FAT is not the best idea. Some ppl are using Windows
2000+ but still keeps some data (and maybe darcs repo) on FAT
partition so they are able to access (and CHANGE) them from Linux. I
know I do it - but I don't recall keeping darcs repository on such
partition but if I was unaware of such constrain I would be puzzled if
darcs won't work and what if I had ONLY FAT partitions?

Thanks,
  Radek.