On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 12:23:24PM +0800, Bean wrote: > On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 4:51 AM, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 03:28:45PM +0800, Bean wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> As FAT is basically a case insensitive file system, we should ignore > >> case when opening files. > > > > I don't agree with this. FAT itself just stores names in ASCII, which > > provides both cases. It's up to the reader whether to be case sensitive > > or not (btw I recall this was discussed before). > > > > IMHO, case unsensitivity is a bug. It's only included in EFI for legacy > > reasons. > > We also need to consider scripts, like update-grub. It retrieve > pathname using host os. We need to be sure grub can read those > pathname. Our fat driver uses the same scheme as linux, which convert > all uppercase name to lowercase, but it doesn't match windows, which > preserves them.
Argh, you're right. Linux is messing up the case! This is so annoying. Oh well.. > FAT can have long filename, which preserve case. The problem is when > long filename is not used, in that case, it store them in 8.3 format, > which uses all uppercase. You just managed to convince me that FAT is far worse than I initially thought. Anyway, please have GRUB deal with this madness as you see fit. I don't care anymore. -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
