From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JJsSB-0002TB-7K for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:32:51 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJsS9-0002Sb-6Y for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:32:49 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJsS7-0002SD-PZ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:32:48 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JJsS7-0002S3-Ie for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:32:47 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JJsS7-00065S-AX for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:32:47 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JJsS3-0001eC-VR; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:32:46 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JJsQG-0001Rz-U4; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:30:52 +0100 Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:30:52 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080129153052.GA5363@thorin> References: <20080128160905.GA2739@saphi> <20080128165504.GB9715@thorin> <20080129051252.GA2504@saphi> <20080129095922.GA31756@thorin> <1201602926.479f016e27f08@imp.free.fr> <20080129113219.GA22894@thorin> <1201611409.479f22918bed6@imp.free.fr> <20080129131934.GB26291@thorin> <871w80adut.fsf@xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <871w80adut.fsf@xs4all.nl> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Cc: tgingold@free.fr Subject: Re: IA64 port X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:32:49 -0000 On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 03:46:50PM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote: > In this case, FAT is modified so fit the need of EFI. However, FAT is > case insensitive. On windows C:\FOO.TXT is the same as c:\foo.txt. > Although I have troubles believing people want to use a technically > flawed non-free OS that costs a lot of money. But that might be > something personally ;-) > > What matters is that it is normal that FAT is not case sensitive. > It's defined that way. This change can't and won't be made for ext2, > for example. You can have a ~/foo and ~/FOO side by side. AFAIK, > this is not possible with FAT. So I think this patch is ok :-) I may lack some perspective on how FAT works internally, so please bear with me, but as far as I can see: - FAT is not really case insensitive any more than its path names are 8.3-limited. It originally was, but latest revisions don't enforce these limitations. - For backwards compatibility with legacy applications we don't really care about, the _OS_ that usually operates on FAT uses case insensitive file access (but not case insensitive directory listing!). - The only remnant that we have from all of this, is that two different files can't have names that match a case-insensitive comparison, which doesn't really affect our problem which is finding a match through case insensitive search. -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)