From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Hudec Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Case-insensitive filesystem support, take 1 Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:26:35 +0100 Message-ID: <20080325182635.GB4857@efreet.light.src> References: <20080325113956.GA7559@cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Derek Fawcus X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Mar 25 19:27:37 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JeDrp-0002R9-PV for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:27:26 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756645AbYCYS0o (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:26:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755290AbYCYS0o (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:26:44 -0400 Received: from ns1.bluetone.cz ([212.158.128.13]:37044 "EHLO ns1.bluetone.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753865AbYCYS0n (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:26:43 -0400 Received: from localhost (spamhole.bluetone.cz [192.168.13.2]) by ns1.bluetone.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id D764E7EC37; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:26:41 +0100 (CET) Received: from ns1.bluetone.cz ([192.168.13.1]) by localhost (spamhole.bluetone.cz [192.168.13.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id SXClkz9ESO10; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:26:39 +0100 (CET) Received: from efreet.light.src (145-119-207-85.strcechy.adsl-llu.static.bluetone.cz [85.207.119.145]) by ns1.bluetone.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15E8476D99; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:26:38 +0100 (CET) Received: from bulb by efreet.light.src with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1JeDr1-0001Lf-Rs; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:26:35 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080325113956.GA7559@cisco.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:39:56 +0000, Derek Fawcus wrote: > On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:21:05AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > ... and on a vfat filesystem under Linux (which is > > case-insensitive and *really* odd wrt case preservation - it remembers > > the name of removed files, so it preserves case even across removal and > > re-creation!) > > Interesting. > That sounds a bit like the claimed windows 95 properly of 'tunneling' renames. > ISTR that it was to catch a move via 'shortname' which then preserved the longname. > > However I'd have expected the Linux version to always use the long name... ... if it's there -- which it might not. Linux may create it always, but Windows will not if they think they don't need to. -- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec