From: Jan Hudec Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:26:35 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Case-insensitive filesystem support, take 1 Message-ID: <20080325182635.GB4857@efreet.light.src> In-Reply-To: <20080325113956.GA7559@cisco.com> 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