From: Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:55:03 GMT
Subject: Re: Can git be tweaked to work cross-platform, on FAT32?
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In-Reply-To: <46a038f90612170221u4c3b5c2asef378d3d4e159ba7@mail.gmail.com>

On 12/17/06, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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