Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268824AbUJPUDc (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Oct 2004 16:03:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268817AbUJPUBi (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Oct 2004 16:01:38 -0400 Received: from relay.pair.com ([209.68.1.20]:42760 "HELO relay.pair.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S268824AbUJPUBC (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Oct 2004 16:01:02 -0400 X-pair-Authenticated: 24.126.73.164 Message-ID: <417170BE.9030906@kegel.com> Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 12:04:30 -0700 From: Dan Kegel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 X-Accept-Language: en, de-de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Russell King CC: Sam Ravnborg , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Martin Schaffner , Kevin Hilman , bertrand marquis Subject: Re: Building on case-insensitive systems and systems where -shared doesn't work well References: <414FC41B.7080102@kegel.com> <58517.194.237.142.24.1095763849.squirrel@194.237.142.24> <4164DAC9.8080701@kegel.com> <20041016210024.GB8306@mars.ravnborg.org> <20041016200627.A20488@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20041016212440.GA8765@mars.ravnborg.org> <20041016204001.B20488@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20041016204001.B20488@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1141 Lines: 29 Russell King wrote: >>Btw. this is not about "case-challenged" filesystems in general. This is >>about making the kernel usefull out-of-the-box for the increasing >>embedded market. >>Less work-around patces needed the better. And these people are often >>bound to Windoze boxes - for different reasons. And the individual >>developer may not be able to change this. Hear, hear! > You still need a case-sensitive filesystem to be able to create a root > filesystem for their embedded device. A case-preserving filesystem should be enough. Or do you have a counterexample? In any case, when I was building embedded filesystems, I used an ext2 image file with genext2fs regardless of which operating system I was running; made it a heck of a lot easier to do things like create device files. - Dan -- Trying to get a job as a c++ developer? See http://kegel.com/academy/getting-hired.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/