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Re: Can git be tweaked to work cross-platform, on FAT32?

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DNDan Nicholson <dbn.lists@gmail.com>
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Dec 19, 2006, 23:55 UTC
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On 12/17/06, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Note that under windows you can use ext2 -- haven't used it, and don't
> know how cygwin behaves with it, but it may be *just* what you need to
> avoid case sensitivity problems and have symlink support.
>
>     http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd
>
>     http://www.fs-driver.org/

I've used both of these guys, but not the most recent versions. Both were previously read-only, but now it appears both have write support from looking at the release notes. Both were a bit heavy handed to get setup, but a decently computer literate person could probably handle it. Ext2IFS in particular looks dramatically improved from when I last used it.

Both worked fine through Cygwin for simple usage. I never did anything with serious disk usage on either of them, so I can't say how it stacks up to FAT32 on Linux in terms of really hammering the disk.

A little more reading says ext2ifs can't handle permissions or symbolic links.
http://www.fs-driver.org/faq.html

I don't recall the details of ext2fsd, but I think symbolic links worked. I'd like to look at this again, but I spend all my time in Linux at home.

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  1. Florian v. SavignyDec 13, 2006
  2. Johannes SchindelinDec 13, 2006
  3. Martin LanghoffDec 14, 2006
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