The way those filesystems do it is that they implement an allocator of resources beneath the actual "filesystem", so that you can snapshot things by marking blocks CoW and then allocating non-filesystem space for the metadata.

As it happens, ext and friends don't roll that way, so adding that functionality breaks compatibility with those filesystems.

Also, most of the new filesystems which allow snapshots in the way I describe have some awesome problems - like needing to truncate a file in order to rm when the filesystem is full, because the way the allocator structure works means that you can't know ahead of time how much space it takes to atomically delete a file, either...

You're just wrong.

NTFS itself is case-sensitive - the Windows interface on top of it is case-preserving and disallows collisions in case-insensitive cases, but NTFS itself allows multiple files which would collide in a really case-insensitive filesystem.

If you don't believe me, go mount a filesystem using NTFS-3G, make two files which would collide on a case-insensitive filesystem, and be amazed as it fails to panic.

Or, if you really want proof, go read the NTFS specifications about how it behaves in various namespaces.

I'm genuinely curious how you produced an AC's name.

...it varies.

IT@JH (the enterprise university-wide technical department) has Linux running on a number of servers, though they would love it if you'd only run RHEL4 and nothing else, for reasons too complicated to go into.

The new VPN software claims to support Linux, but doesn't, and one look at the installer script shows it couldn't have possibly worked for a very long time.

The undergraduate networking documentation has Linux explanations (though conveniently this is "plug in, have fun", with a few notes for brokenness in an old version of NetworkManager and another footnote for WICD being Just Broken in certain forms of PEAP).

So, sort of.

But heaven forbid you call the support line about Linux. They'll make a best-effort attempt to fix it, but...I've seen them claim that having Ubuntu in your boot menu could cause your optical drive to not work. At all. (As in, physically won't eject, after a hard power cycle.)

Actually, Blizzard has mentioned plans for special ladders for e.g. DotA-style things that end up with lives of their own.

I imagine they readily have the infrastructure to host limited-scope events like that in place in the code (or, if not, at least planned for release...)

I got to clean out a system with this about a week ago. It was really nasty.

The worst part was that I spent the better part of two days trying to figure out why the search links were still being poisoned, even after nothing on several LiveCDs found anything...it turned out that it had installed an invisible Firefox plugin/extension which was doing it.

Exciting, huh?

Google Cache only covers some content, and only until it expires from Google's search results.

archive.org would probably be up for mirroring it, but it's unclear that they have all of it.

Not going to help you - most filesystems are growable but not shrinkable online.

Clearly, we mirror it all onto archive.org.

tl;dr of all the IANAL posts:
It's not legal, but it's possible the school could punish you if you refused.

Since she went in without asking explicitly, THAT is illegal s&s, and you can hand her ass to her legally, though they'd make an implied consent argument.