VFAT is case insensitive?!

[Derek Broughton]

Lee Braiden wrote:

> On Friday 16 September 2005 17:49, Alvin Thompson wrote:
>> i just installed another breezy machine, and i have the most peculiar
>> problem. during the install, i created a VFAT partition, and all was
>> well. now, i noticed that all of the '8.3' filename compliant files i
>> put on this partition were showing up in lowercase. i added
>> 'shortname=mixed' to fstab and now the files show up in the correct
>> case, but still i can access the files in a case-insensitive way. the
>> fstab entry is the same as i've always used:
>>
>> /dev/hda3 /data vfat rw,noexec,quiet,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0
>>
>> i've never had this problem with my other breezy installs. what's going
>> on? what am i missing? how do i fix it? help!
> 
> vfat IS case-insenstive.  It's a limitation of the filesystem.  I don't
> know

I would have said that too.  However, when mounted with a UTF-8 character
set it produces a warning that this will _make_ it case sensitive, so I
guess it can be done (but shouldn't).

-- 
derek