On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 15:23, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Li-Ta Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 14:35, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > The biggest problem with arch is that it does not work well on a > > > windows machine. Mostly because of limitations of windows > > > filesystems. I believe most of the issues go away if you > > > don't have your repository on a windows box. Plus there are > > > a number of people working on that part of the problem. > > > > > > > What's the limitation of the filesystem? Can't handle > > the strange filenames used by arch? > > As I recall there are some small issues with a case preserving case > insensitive filenames. > > But I think the big issues is the depth of the directory > tree and possibly the length of the filenames. > > The primary work with windows has been referred to as path compression. >
??? I thought vfat support long filenames. Ollie > Eric _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
