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. Eric _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
