Re: VFAT rename

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
16 May 1999 15:05:51 GMT


Followup to: <373C868C.10EB@mail1.bet1.puv.fi>
By author: "A. Wik" <aw@mail1.bet1.puv.fi>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> It's impossible to rename a file on a VFAT filesystem if
> the only difference between the old and new names is case
> (eg. longfilename and LongFilename). The operation is
> cancelled in fs/namei.c because the lookups return the
> same dentry for both names. What would be the most
> reasonable way to fix this?
>

Clearly the VFS isn't the right place to make this kind of decision,
at least if the strings don't compare identical.

-hpa

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