Messages in this thread |  | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | | Subject | Re: VFAT rename | | Date | 16 May 1999 15:05:51 GMT |
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Followup to: <373C868C.10EB@mail1.bet1.puv.fi> By author: "A. Wik" <aw@mail1.bet1.puv.fi> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > It's impossible to rename a file on a VFAT filesystem if > the only difference between the old and new names is case > (eg. longfilename and LongFilename). The operation is > cancelled in fs/namei.c because the lookups return the > same dentry for both names. What would be the most > reasonable way to fix this? >
Clearly the VFS isn't the right place to make this kind of decision, at least if the strings don't compare identical.
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