Re: [PATCH] Ignore case when opening files in FAT

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 12:23:24PM +0800, Bean wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 4:51 AM, Robert Millan <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 03:28:45PM +0800, Bean wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> As FAT is basically a case insensitive file system, we should ignore
> >> case when opening files.
> >
> > I don't agree with this.  FAT itself just stores names in ASCII, which
> > provides both cases.  It's up to the reader whether to be case sensitive
> > or not (btw I recall this was discussed before).
> >
> > IMHO, case unsensitivity is a bug.  It's only included in EFI for legacy
> > reasons.
> 
> We also need to consider scripts, like update-grub. It retrieve
> pathname using host os. We need to be sure grub can read those
> pathname. Our fat driver uses the same scheme as linux, which convert
> all uppercase name to lowercase, but it doesn't match windows, which
> preserves them.

Argh, you're right.  Linux is messing up the case!  This is so annoying.

Oh well..

> FAT can have long filename, which preserve case. The problem is when
> long filename is not used, in that case, it store them in 8.3 format,
> which uses all uppercase.

You just managed to convince me that FAT is far worse than I initially
thought.

Anyway, please have GRUB deal with this madness as you see fit.  I don't
care anymore.

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Robert Millan

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