Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them

Le 03-05-2025, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> a écrit :

On 03/05/2025 13:09, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
 

On 02 May 2025 20:14:05 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
>

I remember trying to put a letter in uppercase in the name of an
existing file. I had to rename the file differently to be able rename it
back with the uppercase letter. That was very poorly handled by Windows.
Don't know how it is now.

>
     ldo@theon:caseinsens-try> touch try.dat
     ldo@theon:caseinsens-try> ls -l
     total 0
     -rw-r--r-- 1 ldo users 0 May  3 11:57 try.dat
     ldo@theon:caseinsens-try> mv try.dat TRY.DAT
     mv: 'try.dat' and 'TRY.DAT' are the same file
>
I guess Linux isn’t any better ...

The difference is Linux knows that insensitive case is bad for
file systems, so by default it's sensitive. And if you want to mess up
with your system, you can. With Windows, it pretends to manage it
perfectly well and doesn't let you any other choices.

It works on my Linux box (Debian Sid).
 
Heh heh:
 

And mine (Mint 22)

It's not related to Linux but to the file system. So any distro will
handle it in the same way.

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