Recommended windows compatible hg-safe filesystem?

Benoit Boissinot bboissin at gmail.com
Fri Dec 1 06:49:04 CST 2006


On 11/30/06, Steve Borho <steve at borho.org> wrote:
> I recently acquired an external USB drive to carry some enormous repositories
> between my home and office.  I need the drive to be both windows and linux
> compatible, and to hopefully not cause case-sensitivity style corruption in
> my repositories.
>
> What fs is recommended for this purpose?
>

I don't think there is a sane case sensitive file system on windows.
The best you can do is to wait for the next release which will have
support for arbitrary encodings and case insensitive fs.

regards,

Benoit


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