Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:13:40 -0800 | From | "J.H." <> | Subject | Re: [kernel.org users] [kernel] Re: XZ Migration discussion |
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On 02/16/2010 01:16 AM, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 13:33 -0600, Steve French wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Bernd Petrovitsch >> <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at> wrote: > [...] >>>> ntfs as of recent windows is not case insensitive . >>> It *is* case insensitive (as it compares filesystem names >>> case-insensitive on the equivalent of an open() syscall). >> >> There are case sensitive Windows subsystems (e.g. SFU/SUA >> at least when running over NTFS), and the default behavior for > >> Win32 apps even can be changed to be case sensitive >> via a registry key: ObCaseInsensitive). > It's somewhat - ähemm - strange IMHO that the casing is an app-specific > feature (and not filesystem specific). > And it is really that implemented that the app can choose in what way > the filesystem below - given that it supports that feature - compares > two filenames? > >> More important is how easy it is to install - since XZ is >> not even available via apt-get install on recent >> distros (e.g. April 2009 Ubuntu 9.04), this discussion >> seems about a year premature. > It's in recent Fedoras so Ubuntu is perhaps just late. And FWIW, it' 2 > packages too as the second one is the .lzma support (so probably Debian > should be able to fix the clash with whatever the current lzma package > is). > > Bernd
There's a package on Fedora called 'xz' that provides it on my Fedora 11 & 12 boxes.
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