>
> I expect that this way lies a nasty mess of
> surprises. It's not the OS
> that is case-sensitive/preserving, it's the file
> system. If you use
> SAMBA to (e.g.) mount an NTFS drive on a UNIX box,
> what's the case
> there? Similarly, what happens when you mount a case
> sensitive file
> system on to Windows?
>
> Greg
NTFS actually is case sensitive it just that most of
the windows APIs in the presentation layer happily
ignore this. The case sensitivity issue has already
bitten once in the short time I've been using svn. I
added files with the same name, but different
sensitivity, from Unix and checked them out under
Windows. Bam, weird errors, co fails.
<RANT>
While NTFS is a modern file system, in practice the
Windows file system is a hopeless pile of crap.
</RANT>
I feel better now.
Christopher
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