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Re: Handling of fat32

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2006-04-06 15:43:33 CEST

On 4/6/06, Michael Stather <stather.external@onespin-solutions.com> wrote:
> Stefan Küng wrote:
>
> >On 4/6/06, Michael Stather <stather.external@onespin-solutions.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Yes, I did read your answer very well. Sorry I donīt understand why you
> >>write this as an answer, if you donīt want to help me nobody forces you
> >>to do so.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I just get upset when I answer questions but people choose to ignore it.
> >
> >
> >
> >>Although I donīt understand what I did wrong.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >1. You're asking about problems of the linux svn client on the TSVN list
> >2. I told you to "never access a repository or working copy on a
> >partition that's not fully supported by the OS". You know that it
> >doesn't work. But you still ask again on how to do it anyway.
> >
> >
> >
> >>I do want to share my repository among windows and linux if itīs possible.
> >>And I know that the svn included in TortoiseSVN can use fat32
> >>partitions.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Every svn client on windows can.
> >
> >
> >
> >>Even if svn fails when not being able to set the permissions.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >svn won't fail setting permissions on FAT32 when used with a windows
> >client. That's why it works.
> >But it will fail with a linux client, because Linux (not SVN) can't
> >deal very well with FAT32.
> >
> >
> >
> >>So my question just was "how do you do it"? Perhaps itīs better to use
> >>seperate working copies but if thereīs a way to share it it would be
> >>much easier.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >We don't do it. Because it doesn't work.
> >So you have to use two different working copies.
> >
> >Stefan
> >
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> >
> That was the answer I needed, thank you :)
> Where should I know that a windows svn client baheves differently. I
> assumed that theyīre build from the same codebase.

They are, for the most part, but in any cross-platform codebase there
are bound to be blocks of code that are or aren't built for each
platform.

Maybe the Linux FAT32 FS module should allow users/applications to
attempt to set permissions, and internally do nothing and return a
success code every time? That way no application would get tricked by
this. But that's a disucssion for LKML and I'm sure there are a
million things that would be a problem which I haven't considered.

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