Christian Iversen wrote:
On Monday 17 January 2005 17:46, Hans Reiser wrote:
David Masover wrote:
Hans Reiser wrote:
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|> To start with, ntfs read access is still case insensitive, last I
|> checked. How deep does that go?
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| In reiser4, it is just a directory plugin.
Nono -- how do you give Windows, which is case insensitive, access to a
case-sensitive filesystem? For instance, how do you get a Windows-based
backup program to back up a reiser4 partition from a Linux installation,
if it has filenames that are identical except for case?
This problem is insoluble. Either make reiser4 case insensitive and use
it that way or educate the windows programs or live with bugs. I see no
alternative. Do you?
Actually, NTFS has case-sensitivity-support, but it's turned off by default. I
think a fair share of programs _should_ work, even though they all _ought_ to
work.
Could reiser4 support case-crushing, so it would be more "windows-native"?
It could, as a plugin.
