linux-kernel - Re: [kernel.org users] [kernel] Re: XZ Migration discussion

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Message-ID: <1266311771.3433.17.camel@thorin>
Date:	Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:16:11 +0100
From:	Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@...rovitsch.priv.at>
To:	Steve French <smfrench@...il.com>
Cc:	"Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr@...y-dragons.com>,
	lasse.collin@...aani.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, mirrors@...nel.org,
	"FTPAdmin Kernel.org" <ftpadmin@...nel.org>,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>,
	users@...nel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [kernel] Re: XZ Migration discussion

On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 13:33 -0600, Steve French wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Bernd Petrovitsch
> <bernd@...rovitsch.priv.at> 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
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Bernd Petrovitsch                  Email : bernd@...rovitsch.priv.at
                     LUGA : http://www.luga.at

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