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Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 06:48:22 +0100
From: Patrick Schaaf <bof@bof.de>
To: James Stevenson <mistral@stev.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: file names ?
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> i could not help but notice in the kernel source
> in both the ipv4/netfilter and ipv6/netfilter
> dirs there are files the same name which can cause problems
> under certin conditions like non-case sensitive file systems.
>[...] 
> this does not cause a problem for me but i do
> know people who it does cause a problem for
>[...] 
> anyone got any suggestions ?

Yes: don't worry. That's Unix.

> a small example is a smallish ext2 / filesystem
> and the rest being a fat filesystem to that
> it can be accessed from both windows and linux.
> and there is not enough space on the ext2 to compile a kernel anymore.

There's a very simple means to "solve" that scenario, if you are the
one in a million people who happens to have such a setup, _and_ want
to recompile your kernel from scratch: create a loop mount file on the
FAT partition, create an ext2fs there, mount that, and compile on it.

Problem solved.

best regards
  Patrick
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