Re: [kernel.org users] [kernel] Re: XZ Migration discussion

[Bernd Petrovitsch]

On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 13:33 -0600, Steve French wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Bernd Petrovitsch
> <bernd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 - Ãhemm - 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
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