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authorDavid Young <dyoung@hdfgroup.org>2020-09-03 19:34:53 (GMT)
committerDavid Young <dyoung@hdfgroup.org>2020-09-03 19:58:15 (GMT)
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Add Dana's words about MS Windows support.
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@@ -448,8 +448,11 @@ Improvements to VFD SWMR may also alleviate the problem.
## Microsoft Windows
-VFD SWMR does not support Microsoft Windows at this time. We are
-investigating to see when we can add Windows support.
+VFD SWMR is not officially supported on Microsoft Windows at this time. The
+feature should in theory work on Windows and NTFS, however it has not been
+tested as the existing VFD SWMR tests rely on shell scripts. Note that Windows
+file shares are not supported as there is no write ordering guarantee (as with
+NFS, et al.).
## Supported filesystems