Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 Oct 2004 12:04:30 -0700 | From | Dan Kegel <> | Subject | Re: Building on case-insensitive systems and systems where -shared doesn't work well |
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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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