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From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten AT thorstenkampe DOT de>
Subject:  Re: [1.7] hard link error on FAT32 with zsh
Date:  Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:59:31 +0100
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* 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


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