[cvsnt] Re: Request for testing: Case sensitive filesystem driver

[Tony Hoyle]

John Peacock wrote:

> You should also suggest that people do this testing on a completely 
> unimportant filesystem (i.e. not containing any files they intend to 
> ever access again), since they could get stuck with this:

It's extremely unlikely anything I'm doing could cause something like 
that.. for it to be a problem you'd need to have a corrupt filesystem to 
start with (and NTFS is legendary for requiring a reformat when it 
corrupts anyway - case sensitivity has nothing to do with it).

> Yes, NTFS supports case sensitive handling, but NO, there isn't anything 
> in Windows that uses it, and lots of things that go out of their way to 
> do it wrong.

Actually, there are almost no problems and everything works as it 
should.  Things like CVS need special handling becuase they manage 
internal lists of files, but most apps just open/close things and have 
no issues.  cmd.exe and Windows Explorer handle it just fine.  Even 
Visual Studio works if you make a case sensitive sandbox and start 
editing with it.

Tony