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RE: [MiNT] _major_ filesystem bug



> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Martin-Eric Racine
> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 1999 7:20 AM
> To: Frank Naumann
> Cc: MiNT List
> Subject: Re: [MiNT] _major_ filesystem bug
>
>
> > > Fnramfs and VFAT drivers are case-sensitive and they work with ST-ZIP,
> >
> > Wrong. The ramdisk and VFAT filesystem is case-preserving and not
> > case-sensitive (this is an important difference!).
>
> OK, so, can we make MinixFS and U: case-preserving then?
> It would seem more usefull than just case-sensitive.

If you make it case-preserving, you won't be able to have "makefile" and
"Makefile" in the same directory. I don't think this would be a popular
idea...

Regards, jr