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Re: IA64 port
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tgingold |
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Re: IA64 port |
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Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:38:20 +0100 |
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Quoting Robert Millan <address@hidden>:
> 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.
FAT is now case preserving but still case insensitive. Like MacOS filesystem.
> - 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.
Right.
Tristan.
- 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, 2008/01/29
- Re: IA64 port,
tgingold <=
- 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
- Re: IA64 port, Tristan Gingold, 2008/01/30