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Re: IA64 port


From: tgingold
Subject: Re: IA64 port
Date: 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.




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