Re: pre7 breaks joliet || joliet breaks pre7 ?

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Wed, 27 Aug 1997 16:53:22 -0700 (PDT)


On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> FAT32/Joliet and 2.0.x seem to be just fine. 2.1.x is going to be very hard.
> It like the MacOS has the problem of multiple equivalent names for one file
> which seems at the moment to have been put under a rock in the hope it will
> go away (it won't).

2.1.x can handle it, it hasn't been put under any rock. The code to handle
naming aliases has been there for several weeks now, which is why
everybody has been so silent about it,

Linus