On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 07:55:01PM +0200, petter wahlman wrote: > > > > Attention: RANT LEVEL set to 7. > > > > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 09:11:24PM +0200, petter wahlman wrote: > > > > > So, why are 'linux' filesystems case sensitive? > > > > I think the question is "Why is Windows case insensitive" ? > > > Or OS/2 and Novel witch are some of the other OS's I share code with. > > > > OS/2, Novel and Windows all shame the same historical codebase, that is, > > PC-DOS. No surprise they all share the same behaviour. > True, but that does'nt help me. I know. I was just stating the fact. > > > > Last time I checked with my language teacher (no matter what language), > > > > "A" and "a" are not the same. So, we can reframe your question as > > > > "Why do we have different cases for the same letter of the alphabet ?". > > > > In that case, I really can't answer. > > > Semantically speaking, I agree that 'A' != 'a'. The number of possible > > > filenames are also gratly increased with case sensitivity. > > > I would probably religously be against such a change if I did not > > > experience the previously mentioned problems. > > But this problems you experience is easily solved. I can even code a > > small script for you if you give me the details. > Repeating myself for the N-th time. It's not that easy, if that was the > case I could have written it with C, shell, gas, perl whatever. > I could even make a case insensitive shell for that matter, but make and > my CVS-like program would still complain. Why not use CVS resources that will automaticaly correct the files uppon upload ? > > And do understand your problem, but changing the VFS would only cause further > > problems (curing a headache by cutting the head off). This problems should > > be solved in userspace. > It's not possible. > People, see the light :) I think your only option is using symlinks. []s -- Rodrigo Barbosa - rodrigob at tisbrasil.com.br TIS - Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" - http://www.tisbrasil.com.br/ Brainbench Certified -> Transcript ID #3332104 -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
