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

[John Peacock]

Tony Hoyle wrote:

> 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).

As I understand it, it isn't all that hard to change the FRS and not 
update the MFT (for example, something which uses the 8.3 filename like 
DOS-based edit).  This is what I believe the Cygwin people found when 
they tried to support case-sensitive natively with NTFS.

John