Using GnuPG on Windows/Linux
David Shaw
dshaw@jabberwocky.com
Thu May 15 04:15:01 2003
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On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 03:16:44AM +0200, Johan Wevers wrote:
> Johan Parin wrote:
>
> > want to use GnuPG on both systems. Of course I want to use the same
> > keyrings etc. This means things needs to be stored on a Windows (FAT)
> > partition.
>
> Unless you can find ext2/ext3/Reiser drivers for XP (I only have some ro
> ext2 drivers for 95/98, I don't know if they even exist for XP).
> Unfortunately the NTFS driver for Linux is still ro. :-(
>
> Why is locking impossible on FAT32?
It's not impossible technically, but the locking scheme GnuPG uses at
the moment isn't compatible with a FAT filesystem. It uses link().
David
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