petter wahlman <petter@bluezone.no> wrote:
>On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 09:45, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
>There is a reason why JFS, HPFS, VFAT, etc. filesystem support this
>option, so why should'nt it be generally available?
Because it is specified differently.
FAT, VFAT, HPFS and the derived NTFS[0] have the cases-insensitiveness
as part of the filesystem specification (for whatever reason someone
decided this decades ago) and therefore their filesystem drivers also
do it..
Ext2, UFS, ... are case-sensitive specified. And therefore their
filesystem-drivers are not doing this (and should not ever be be able
to do it : You want a case-insensitive filesystem ? Use one.).
Another possible (quite easy - YMMV) workaround is to use a
samba-exported and locally mounted ext2/.... filesystem.
Bernd
[0] : NTFS is - per definition - case-preserving but also
case-insensitive.
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