On Tuesday 15 August 2006 21:40, Mike wrote:
> Hello, I'm trying to check out my project directory into a working
> directory that is on a FAT32 partition. (I have subversion running
> in linux).
From the discription below, I get that you have a FAT32 mounted on a Linux
system, right? Otherwise, of course FAT32 is supported, but possibly only
under win32 OSs.
> The error I get is:
>
> svn: Can't set file '/mnt/winE/_pro42/pro42/.svn/entries' read-only:
> Operation not permitted.
>
> It seems to have created all of the .svn directory, it just bailed
> out when it couldn't set permissions.
You could analyse this further by running it under 'strace'.
Anyhow, my guess is that it simply doesn't work. The problem is that there is
no place on FAT32 to store the basic Unix file permissions. SVN (or possibly
rather APR) tries and fails, aborting the whole. It might be possible to
change Subversion to only issue a warning (as long as what it did was really
non-fatal). Otherwise, I seem to remember that there was a way to mount FAT
FSs in a mode that stored the Unix file attributes somewhere in a hidden file
or somesuch, thus allowing it to work. See the 'mount' command's manpage.
> It seems to me, the read-only setting bit should be optional, as it
> isn't necessary. That's probably all you'd need to do to support
> fat32 working dirs.
Hmmm, seems we reached the same conclusion.
Uli
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