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| author | David Young <dyoung@hdfgroup.org> | 2020-09-03 19:34:53 (GMT) |
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| committer | David Young <dyoung@hdfgroup.org> | 2020-09-03 19:58:15 (GMT) |
| commit | 101f040b80a1dcee79fe2bc70c0c59021871b09b (patch) | |
| tree | 7f290b13a6d5048649eabfd662a25409d773f7c2 | |
| parent | a4a969f0fd1c3b10c2a5458295d5d689e097a58c (diff) | |
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Add Dana's words about MS Windows support.
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diff --git a/doc/vfd-swmr-user-guide.md b/doc/vfd-swmr-user-guide.md index 80c53ee..806e34f 100644 --- a/doc/vfd-swmr-user-guide.md +++ b/doc/vfd-swmr-user-guide.md @@ -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 |