RE: [MiNT] _major_ filesystem bug

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@medicaldataservice.de>]

> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Jo Even Skarstein
> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 1999 8:35 AM
> To: MiNT List
> Subject: Re: [MiNT] _major_ filesystem bug
>
>
> On Tue, 2 Mar 1999 08:20:28 +0200 (EET), Martin-Eric Racine wrote:
>
> > > > 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.
>
> Please don't! In a case-preserving filesystem GURBA.FOO and
> Gurba.foo is the
> same file...
>
> Btw. Frank N., it's impossible to rename 'gurba.foo' to 'Gurba.foo' under
> ram.xfs. It works fine on a VFAT/NEWFATFS-partition (using
> Thing), although
> mv fails there as well since gurba.foo and Gurba.foo is the same file.

Frank, I would assume that Frename() should allow to do this kind of
renaming on a case preserving file system...

Regards, jr