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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin
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Robert Collins |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin |
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Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:47:02 +1100 |
On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 15:56, Dustin Sallings wrote:
> On Mar 5, 2004, at 20:21, Tom Lord wrote:
>
> > Personally, I have a little bit of trouble taking case insentive
> > filesystems seriously.
>
> Turns out there are quite a few UNIX and Windows users out there with
> case insensitive filesystems and this particular design decision seems
> to do very little other than to break archives that are ever checked
> out and then recommitted by people who use them.
A case insensitive file system is like a database where the key '123' is
equal to the '456' and to '789' and ...
It breaks a pretty fundamental assumption that programs storing data
make.
Rob
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Robin Farine, 2004/03/14
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Tom Lord, 2004/03/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Dustin Sallings, 2004/03/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Tom Lord, 2004/03/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Dustin Sallings, 2004/03/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Robert Collins, 2004/03/14
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin,
Robert Collins <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Dustin Sallings, 2004/03/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Tom Lord, 2004/03/12
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Dustin Sallings, 2004/03/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Tom Lord, 2004/03/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Aaron Bentley, 2004/03/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Tom Lord, 2004/03/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Aaron Bentley, 2004/03/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Erik de Castro Lopo, 2004/03/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Tom Lord, 2004/03/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Robert Collins, 2004/03/13