X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: [1.7] hard link error on FAT32 with zsh Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:59:31 +0100 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <20091214105829.GE8059@calimero.vinschen.de> <4B2639AC.1060708@byu.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.9.14 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com * Peter A. Castro (Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:31:14 -0800 (PST)) > > On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Eric Blake wrote: > > > > According to Thorsten Kampe on 12/14/2009 5:22 AM: > >>> That's why. FAT32 does not support hardlinks. > >> > >> Well, then why don't I get this error with the latest 1.5 DLL? It's the > >> same thumb drive, the same installation... > > > > It _didn't_ work. In 1.5, you ended up creating a copy, which meant there > > was no locking after all. If zsh then depended on that attempt at locking > > working, you would have gotten into inconsistent states. > > > > Your best bet now might be to report this as an upstream bug to zsh, and > > recommend that they use an alternative approach, such as symlink locking > > (the way emacs does things), if hard link locking doesn't work because of > > the underlying file system. > > On a side not, Thorsten, you should be able to set your history file to > an NTFS filesystem as a workaround. Not ideal, I know, but it should be > servicable for the time being. Or, for that matter, why are you still > using FAT32? Just curious.... As mentioned this is a portable installation on a thumb drive. I would use NTFS if there was a way to disable ACLs. Thorsten -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple