From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Iversen Subject: Re: reiser4 for windows Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 18:12:54 +0100 Message-ID: <200501171812.54199.chrivers@iversen-net.dk> References: <20041204211059.41930.qmail@web50908.mail.yahoo.com> <41EA04B7.3050606@slaphack.com> <41EBEBF1.1050408@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <41EBEBF1.1050408@namesys.com> Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com On Monday 17 January 2005 17:46, Hans Reiser wrote: > David Masover wrote: > > Hans Reiser wrote: > > [...] > > > > |> To start with, ntfs read access is still case insensitive, last I > > |> checked. How deep does that go? > > | > > | In reiser4, it is just a directory plugin. > > > > Nono -- how do you give Windows, which is case insensitive, access to a > > case-sensitive filesystem? For instance, how do you get a Windows-based > > backup program to back up a reiser4 partition from a Linux installation, > > if it has filenames that are identical except for case? > > This problem is insoluble. Either make reiser4 case insensitive and use > it that way or educate the windows programs or live with bugs. I see no > alternative. Do you? Actually, NTFS has case-sensitivity-support, but it's turned off by default. I think a fair share of programs _should_ work, even though they all _ought_ to work. Could reiser4 support case-crushing, so it would be more "windows-native"? -- Regards, Christian Iversen