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DateSat, 16 Oct 2004 12:04:30 -0700
FromDan Kegel <>
SubjectRe: Building on case-insensitive systems and systems where -shared doesn't work well
Russell King wrote:
>>Btw. this is not about "case-challenged" filesystems in general. This is
>>about making the kernel usefull out-of-the-box for the increasing
>>embedded market.
>>Less work-around patces needed the better. And these people are often
>>bound to Windoze boxes - for different reasons. And the individual
>>developer may not be able to change this.

Hear, hear!

> You still need a case-sensitive filesystem to be able to create a root
> filesystem for their embedded device. 

A case-preserving filesystem should be enough.  Or do you have a counterexample?

In any case, when I was building embedded filesystems,
I used an ext2 image file with genext2fs regardless of which operating
system I was running; made it a heck of a lot easier to
do things like create device files.
- Dan


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