Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Case-insensitive filesystem support, take 1

From: Jan Hudec <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:26:35 +0100

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:39:56 +0000, Derek Fawcus wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:21:05AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >    ... and on a vfat filesystem under Linux (which is 
> >    case-insensitive and *really* odd wrt case preservation - it remembers 
> >    the name of removed files, so it preserves case even across removal and 
> >    re-creation!)
> 
> Interesting.
> That sounds a bit like the claimed windows 95 properly of 'tunneling' renames.
> ISTR that it was to catch a move via 'shortname' which then preserved the longname.
> 
> However I'd have expected the Linux version to always use the long name...

... if it's there -- which it might not. Linux may create it always, but
Windows will not if they think they don't need to.

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						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <[email-masked]>