Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756951Ab0BPPQB (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:16:01 -0500 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:45765 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756417Ab0BPPQA (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:16:00 -0500 Message-ID: <4B7AB624.5060507@kernel.org> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:13:40 -0800 From: "J.H." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100120 Fedora/3.0.1-1.fc12 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bernd Petrovitsch CC: Steve French , "Mr. James W. Laferriere" , lasse.collin@tukaani.org, linux-kernel , mirrors@kernel.org, "FTPAdmin Kernel.org" , Stefan Richter , Avi Kivity , Jean Delvare , users@kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Willy Tarreau Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [kernel] Re: XZ Migration discussion References: <4B744E13.8040004@kernel.org> <4B75A5DC.3060803@kernel.org> <20100212202357.6363d5af@hyperion.delvare> <20100212230702.GA10266@1wt.eu> <20100213091748.276821e1@hyperion.delvare> <4B767810.5020707@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <4B767C67.7060701@redhat.com> <1266100773.23181.8.camel@thorin> <524f69651002151133v475ebd02r80837adfc428fbfd@mail.gmail.com> <1266311771.3433.17.camel@thorin> In-Reply-To: <1266311771.3433.17.camel@thorin> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (shards.monkeyblade.net [198.137.202.13]); Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:13:46 -0800 (PST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1706 Lines: 42 On 02/16/2010 01:16 AM, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 13:33 -0600, Steve French wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Bernd Petrovitsch >> wrote: > [...] >>>> ntfs as of recent windows is not case insensitive . >>> It *is* case insensitive (as it compares filesystem names >>> case-insensitive on the equivalent of an open() syscall). >> >> There are case sensitive Windows subsystems (e.g. SFU/SUA >> at least when running over NTFS), and the default behavior for > >> Win32 apps even can be changed to be case sensitive >> via a registry key: ObCaseInsensitive). > It's somewhat - ähemm - strange IMHO that the casing is an app-specific > feature (and not filesystem specific). > And it is really that implemented that the app can choose in what way > the filesystem below - given that it supports that feature - compares > two filenames? > >> More important is how easy it is to install - since XZ is >> not even available via apt-get install on recent >> distros (e.g. April 2009 Ubuntu 9.04), this discussion >> seems about a year premature. > It's in recent Fedoras so Ubuntu is perhaps just late. And FWIW, it' 2 > packages too as the second one is the .lzma support (so probably Debian > should be able to fix the clash with whatever the current lzma package > is). > > Bernd There's a package on Fedora called 'xz' that provides it on my Fedora 11 & 12 boxes. - John 'Warthog9' Hawley -- 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/