From: lhall AT rfk DOT com (Larry Hall)
Subject: Re: Fixes to last snapshot
23 Mar 1998 12:08:50 -0800
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At 09:54 PM 3/21/98 GMT, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>In article <01BD550A DOT 1B7D91D0 AT sos>,
>Sergey Okhapkin  <sos AT buggy DOT prospect DOT com DOT ru> wrote:
>>What do you think about a patch for case sensitive file opens/removals
>>on NTFS? I found it very usefull. For me :-)
>
>I think that it should be a mount option rather than an environment setting,
>actually.  How about these options:
>
>	mount
>	  -b		"binary" mount
>	  -p		posix semantics (case sensitive)
>	  -A		do not use extended attributes
>	  -r		"r"emovable device (floppy, zip drive)
>	  -s		create mount table in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
>-- 
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>


I like it, particularly the -A since there seems to be an issue with this
functionality.  These are file system things so it makes sense to me to 
associate them with mount, although perhaps it is still worthwhile to 
have environment settings for "defaults".  Tell me though, what are the 
semantics for -r?

On another note, I haven't had much chance to play with Sergey's case-
sensitive stuff but I think that is a giant step toward compatibility 
with UNIX stuff.  Its a worthwhile option to have.


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