Documentation/ references

Posted Oct 28, 2016 20:30 UTC (Fri) by HIGHGuY (subscriber, #62277)
In reply to: Documentation/ references by corbet
Parent article: A report from the documentation maintainer

git supports soft-links, so it should be easy to let docs -> Documentation, followed by a period of clean-ups in the code and ultimately moving Documentation over docs or swapping things around with Documentation -> docs. The latter might accomodate weblinks pointing to kernel.org git repo's and similar things.

Is there some peculiar reason why that wouldn't be allowed? (checkout on FAT or NTFS filesystems perhaps >:-] )

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Posted Oct 31, 2016 13:19 UTC (Mon) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link] (5 responses)

> (checkout on FAT or NTFS filesystems perhaps >:-] )

Checkout on FAT or NTFS is already not possible, since the kernel has files which differ only on case.

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Posted Oct 31, 2016 15:39 UTC (Mon) by zdzichu (subscriber, #17118) [Link] (4 responses)

NTFS is case-sensitive, so there isn't a problem.

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Posted Oct 31, 2016 16:21 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (3 responses)

Not true. NTFS is case-preserving but not case-sensitive. You _can_ create files on NTFS that differ only in case, but it will cause a lot of problems (like not being able to delete them using regular tools).

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Posted Nov 7, 2016 4:10 UTC (Mon) by JanC_ (guest, #34940) [Link] (2 responses)

NTFS is case sensitive.

The NT kernel supports case sensitive file systems.

The Windows subsystems & applications using it have problems with it.

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Posted Nov 7, 2016 4:44 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (1 responses)

NTFS stores case mapping in a metafile called "$UpCase". You are free to ignore it and write files named "Foo" and "FOO" but this will break the Windows API.

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Posted Nov 7, 2016 12:16 UTC (Mon) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

It is fun to use a Samba share from Linux and create files Windows has problems with and explore that way. Creating a file named CON gets mangled in Explorer to some string X. Create a file named X and Explorer cannot delete the CON file until the other disappears (selecting the right file does not work; deletion is by name). Similar shenanigans happen with mixed cases.