On 23 Oct 2005, at 01:56, Alastair Rankine wrote:
On 22/10/2005, at 12:35 PM, Ben Escoto wrote:
Under the old system we didn't check the source, just the destination
(as in your scheme). This worked ok, but led to unnecessary quoting.
For instance in a Mac OS X -> Mac OS X backup, rdiff-backup would
quote all uppercase characters.
I'm sorry I still don't get it. If the destination filesystem is
case *preserving* (which in this case it is), surely this removes
the need for unnecessary quoting?
The HFS+ file system is case preserving, but case insensitive. E.g.
a file name "SomeFile" will overwrite a file named "somefile", so
these two filenames cannot coexist.
Imagine that the source has a file system that is case sensitive, so
it could have both those file names. If the user does a backup onto
an HFS+ volume we have a problem unless we somehow deal with the case
issue. Rdiff-backup deals with this by quoting the upper case
characters. However, it does it in some situations where it is not
necessary, i.e. if both the source and destination are HFS+.
Kevin Horton
Ottawa, Canada
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