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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: reiser4 for windows
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 08:37:13 -0800
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To: Christian Iversen <chrivers@iversen-net.dk>
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Christian Iversen wrote:

>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"?
>
>  
>
It could, as a plugin.