Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [kernel.org users] [kernel] Re: XZ Migration discussion | From | Bernd Petrovitsch <> | Date | Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:16:11 +0100 |
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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 -- Bernd Petrovitsch Email : bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at LUGA : http://www.luga.at
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