On 6 January 2011 08:53, Justin Sheehy <[email protected]> wrote: > There's certainly no operating system religion at work here, simply > the limited resources of a small team. A few different people in the > community have been working on Windows support, which we think is a > great idea -- we just currently don't have anyone spare to make > official windows releases, QA and benchmark those releases on various > windows systems, and so on.
Given the amount of time I've spent trying to deal with the eccentricities of file locking in windows, I suggest caution as there lies dragons. Obviously it's *possible*, and I'm guessing Windows developers with file-system experience probably laugh at my caution, but for anything involving lots of file handles when you're used to *nix, be aware that it's non-trivial. Although I guess this would only really affect bitcask. Although after googling about this issue, the wikipedia page would have been immensely helpful to me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_locking#In_Microsoft_Windows But don't let me discourage anybody wanting to give it a go ;-) Joel Pitt, PhD | http://ferrouswheel.me | +852 6683 9980 M-Lab AI Project and OpenCog Developer | http://opencog.org _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
