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Re: IA64 port
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Robert Millan |
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Re: IA64 port |
Date: |
Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:30:52 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
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
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- Re: IA64 port, (continued)
- Re: IA64 port, Robert Millan, 2008/01/29
- Re: IA64 port, tgingold, 2008/01/29
- Re: IA64 port, Robert Millan, 2008/01/29
- Re: IA64 port, tgingold, 2008/01/29
- Re: IA64 port, Robert Millan, 2008/01/29
- Re: IA64 port, Marco Gerards, 2008/01/29
- Re: IA64 port,
Robert Millan <=
- Re: IA64 port, tgingold, 2008/01/29
- Re: IA64 port, Robert Millan, 2008/01/29
- Re: IA64 port, Tristan Gingold, 2008/01/30
- Re: IA64 port, Robert Millan, 2008/01/30
- Re: IA64 port, tgingold, 2008/01/29
- Re: IA64 port, Tristan Gingold, 2008/01/30
- Re: IA64 port, Robert Millan, 2008/01/30
- Re: IA64 port, Robert Millan, 2008/01/30
- Re: IA64 port, tgingold, 2008/01/30
- Re: IA64 port, Robert Millan, 2008/01/30