file system not supported error while adding a file to sql filegroup with filestream

Question

hi i am a beginner with sql server 2008, i was trying to add a file to a filegroup so that i an create a table which uses filestream, but i keep getting an errors.

here is the code that i am trying:

ALTER DATABASE dbtry1

ADD FILEGROUP dbtry1_fg_filestream CONTAINS FILESTREAM

GO

ALTER DATABASE dbtry1

ADD FILE

(

NAME= 'dbtry1_filestream',

FILENAME = 'E:\Projects\fs.ndf'

)

TO FILEGROUP dbtry1_fg_filestream

GO

the errors:

Msg 5134, Level 16, State 2, Line 1

The path that is specified by 'E:\Projects\fs.ndf' cannot be used for FILESTREAM files because it is not on a supported file system.

Msg 5009, Level 16, State 14, Line 1

One or more files listed in the statement could not be found or could not be initialized.

Please help!

Answer 1

it is not on a supported file system.

• Is it local NTFS?
• Compressed and not using 4k clusters?

More info here

Edit:

After comment.. no, you can't use FAT 32. Why do you still have this? You are limited to 4GB file size and I'm sure FILESTREAM would hit this quickly.