I agree that rename does the wrong thing in this case, but I have to
disagree on automatically writing to the same file with a different
case. The reason I chose the behavior I did with vfat was because
this is Unix and not Windows. I've seen quite a few source distributions
with both Makefile and makefile in the same directory, and I wanted
to see an error before one overwrote the other while unpacking a
tar distribution. Additionally, if I did a cp * /vfat_partition/,
I wanted to see an error if this sort of thing occurred.
I do agree that this behavior would be useful if handled by a mount
option, and the default behavior might be to automatically overwrite.
Gordon Chaffee