From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Derek Fawcus Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Case-insensitive filesystem support, take 1 Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:39:56 +0000 Message-ID: <20080325113956.GA7559@cisco.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Mar 25 12:50:38 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 1Je7fi-0006BU-Nu for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:50:31 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753719AbYCYLts (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:49:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753768AbYCYLts (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:49:48 -0400 Received: from ams-iport-1.cisco.com ([144.254.224.140]:24738 "EHLO ams-iport-1.cisco.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753698AbYCYLtr (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:49:47 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 582 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:49:47 EDT X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,551,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="4362804" Received: from ams-dkim-1.cisco.com ([144.254.224.138]) by ams-iport-1.cisco.com with ESMTP; 25 Mar 2008 12:40:03 +0100 Received: from ams-core-1.cisco.com (ams-core-1.cisco.com [144.254.224.150]) by ams-dkim-1.cisco.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id m2PBe3pD026178 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:40:03 +0100 Received: from edi-view2.cisco.com (edi-view2.cisco.com [64.103.71.156]) by ams-core-1.cisco.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m2PBe3eh011416 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:40:03 GMT Received: from dfawcus-laptop (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by edi-view2.cisco.com (8.11.2/CISCO.WS.1.2) with ESMTP id m2PBe3X28596 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:40:03 GMT Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; l=565; t=1206445203; x=1207309203; c=relaxed/simple; s=amsdkim1002; h=Content-Type:From:Subject:Content-Transfer-Encoding:MIME-Version; d=cisco.com; i=dfawcus@cisco.com; z=From:=20Derek=20Fawcus=20 |Subject:=20Re=3A=20[PATCH=200/7]=20Case-insensitive=20file system=20support,=20take=201 |Sender:=20; bh=0HlILdxWLjHfRtktH6q5kuJndihVcDOGrvF9hVX0ojs=; b=e3gXDJehLW/MA4v3Fm/hmnPX4KWDsm0MkMmkSr/phetdNYgTa+89Rnr4er s0Wcl8Fe2TpIlVSwuPmIykMzHyLBd5HPy/4qKH2DmR3VL3U4kPP4duLoXqDf BspIp5fWs0; Authentication-Results: ams-dkim-1; header.From=dfawcus@cisco.com; dkim=pass ( sig from cisco.com/amsdkim1002 verified; ); Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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... DF