From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: managed mounts. hindsight sadness at their departure
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:33:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B9089A2.5070707@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B90817E.5020309@shaddybaddah.name>
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According to Shaddy Baddah on 3/4/2010 8:58 PM:
> <snip>
> - File names are case sensitive if the OS and the underlying file system
> supports it. Works on NTFS and NFS. Does not work on FAT and Samba
> shares. Requires to change a registry key (see the user's guide).
> But now in hindsight, one feature of the managed mounts that I counted
> as not significant enough to keep it included, seems to me to have a
> kind of valid use case. That is allowing multiple files of the same name
> differing only in case.
Request case sensitivity from windows, and you have that feature back.
>
> Not that I'd assert that this is reason enough to have kept the managed
> mounts, it is just an unfortunate limitation that 1.7 now has over 1.5.
No, it is not a limitation, provided you follow the instructions.
$ touch a A
$ ls ?
A a
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-05 4:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-05 3:59 Shaddy Baddah
2010-03-05 4:33 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2010-03-05 5:02 ` Shaddy Baddah
2010-03-05 9:36 ` Corinna Vinschen
2010-03-08 13:29 ` Shaddy Baddah
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