On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:13 AM, David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk>wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 01:14:44PM -0500, yary wrote:
>
> > It would be nice to have something like $OSNAME for filesystem type
> > discovery... Beef up Sys::Filesystem and put it in the core? Or at least
> > encourage its use where helpful...
>
> That's tricky. What you're really interested in isn't the filesystem
> but the filesystem's capabilities. Consider, for example, NFS which
> ends up on a FAT filesystem has different capabilities from NFS which
> has an ext4 backend. And in the general case you can't tell what those
> capabilities are without just trying them.
>
> So, riffing off of Devel::CheckOS, you'd want an API something like
> this ...
>
> my $fs = Devel::CheckFS->new($filename);
>
> print "$filename is on an FS that is case sensitive\n"
> if($fs->supports('CaseSensitive'));
>
> and because you want this to work on Windows as well as Unix, you need
> to jump through all the painful hoops of making things like figuring out
> what filesystem a file is on portable.
>
> I'd love to see someone other than me write this code!
Good points! I'd love to have time and money enough to allow me to work on
such code! lol, we know it sounds good, but not quite enough pain to be
bothered...
