Re: [Pytables-users] fat32 and pytables on Linux

[Ivan V. i B. <iv...@ca...>]

Francesc Altet (el 2005-05-14 a les 09:24:03 +0200) va dir::

> This seems an incompatibility between HDF5 library and the driver for
> the fat32 in Linux. I don't know who might be the ultimate responsible
> of the issue. You may want to issue a bug to the HDF5 (see
> http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5-FAQ.html#21) and see what they say
> about that.
>=20
> My opinion is, though, that using HDF5 on top of Linux and VFAT may
> kill the performance. It would be much better to create the files on a
> native Linux partition and then move the resulting files to the VFAT
> one.

Using an Ext2/Ext3 driver for Windows could also do the trick.  Ext2fsd_
seems to be quite complete, though bugs still exist and most probably
performance will be sub-standard.

=2E. _Ext2fsd: http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/

Good luck,

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