list of filesystems with known issues

Jens.Wulf at sew-eurodrive.de Jens.Wulf at sew-eurodrive.de
Wed Mar 4 01:04:37 CST 2009


> We don't have a lot of information about Windows filesystem 
> issues. The
> most frequent problem here tends to be interference by virus scanners.
> The locking and ordering semantics on Windows shares is also possibly
> different, which may allow clients to race when writing to the same
> repository.
Are there any reported bugs related to that?

Statements regarding windows (file)systems are quite vague, but suggest to not access a repo concurrently, no matter whether it is a network or local filesystem...

Jens



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