Re: Building on case-insensitive systems and systems where -shareddoesn't work well

[Dan Kegel]

Russell King wrote:
> > Btw. this is not about "case-challenged" filesystems in general. This is
> > about making the kernel usefull out-of-the-box for the increasing
> > embedded market.
> > Less work-around patces needed the better. And these people are often
> > bound to Windoze boxes - for different reasons. And the individual
> > developer may not be able to change this.

Hear, hear!

> You still need a case-sensitive filesystem to be able to create a root
> filesystem for their embedded device. 

A case-preserving filesystem should be enough.  Or do you have a counterexample?

In any case, when I was building embedded filesystems,
I used an ext2 image file with genext2fs regardless of which operating
system I was running; made it a heck of a lot easier to
do things like create device files.
- Dan


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