Re: [kernel.org users] [kernel] Re: XZ Migration discussion

["J.H." <warthog9@kernel.org>]

On 02/16/2010 01:16 AM, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 13:33 -0600, Steve French wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Bernd Petrovitsch
>> <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at> wrote:
> [...]
>>>>       ntfs as of recent windows is not case insensitive .
>>> It *is* case insensitive (as it compares filesystem names
>>> case-insensitive on the equivalent of an open() syscall).
>>
>> There are case sensitive Windows subsystems (e.g. SFU/SUA
>> at least when running over NTFS), and the default behavior for
> 
>> Win32 apps even can be changed to be case sensitive
>> via a registry key: ObCaseInsensitive).
> It's somewhat - ähemm - strange IMHO that the casing is an app-specific
> feature (and not filesystem specific).
> And it is really that implemented that the app can choose in what way
> the filesystem below - given that it supports that feature - compares
> two filenames?
> 
>> More important is how easy it is to install - since XZ is
>> not even available via apt-get install on recent
>> distros (e.g. April 2009 Ubuntu 9.04), this discussion
>> seems about a year premature.
> It's in recent Fedoras so Ubuntu is perhaps just late. And FWIW, it' 2
> packages too as the second one is the .lzma support (so probably Debian
> should be able to fix the clash with whatever the current lzma package
> is).
> 
> 	Bernd

There's a package on Fedora called 'xz' that provides it on my Fedora 11
& 12 boxes.

- John 'Warthog9' Hawley