vfat lost file problem

Kernel Version:
Linux debian 2.4.21 #6 SMP Wed Aug 6 11:55:01 CEST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux mv command Version:
mv (coreutils) 5.0.90

I've discovered that if you try to change the name of a file in a vfat partition only changing upper or lower case the file immediatly disappears.

Example:
If we have the file a.txt and we want to rename it like A.txt if we use the mv command mv a.txt A.txt the file a.txt (and also A.txt) are deleted.

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Bye
Luigi Audasso - il_guru

Looks like 5.0.90 does it. If src and dst are same inode, just unlink src. Probably it assume hard link.

Could you please report this to coreutils maintainer?

OGAWA Hirofumi <[email protected]>