On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
ok, committed. -- Bean _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
