WineConf Agenda

Dan Kegel dank at kegel.com
Sun Apr 3 14:07:38 CDT 2005


Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 08:57:58PM +1000, Andrew Tridgell wrote:
> 
>>In each case I will be trying to encourage methods which can store the
>>full NTFS semantics, rather than limiting ourselves to only the things
>>that fit natually in posix filesystems. I'm guessing we will have some
>>lively discussion on whether this is a worthwhile aim :-)
> 
> 
> Speaking of which, both Samba and Wine suffer from the lack of support
> of cases-insensitivness in the kernel. Now, I'm not suggesting that
> we should push for that (I'm aware of the past discussions on LKML, and
> I must agree with Linus), but we should push for *something* that's
> acceptable and helps us solve the negative lookups a bit faster than a
> full directory listing every time.

For the curious, the best link to the past discussion I could find is
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=107700108430044&w=2
- Dan

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