Re: Rationale for aligning data on even bytes in a Unix shell file?

On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 20:36:34 +0300
Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> wibbled:

On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 17:03:46 GMT
scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wrote:

So is linux.   The operating system ascribes no meaning to the bytes
stored in the filesystem directories.   They're just a stream of
bytes.
 

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That's nonsense.
Every case-preserving case-insensitive file system has to understand
characters encoding, at least to a certain degree.

Case insensitve file systems are an abortion that no sane OS should use.
Far too much scope for mistakes not to mention the problem of unzipping
from a case sensitive one.