Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them

On 2025-04-29 16:18, Borax Man wrote:

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On 2025-04-28, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote:

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To paraphrase Kipling:
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Unix is Unix and Microslop is Microslop and never the twain should
meet.

 Consider when you move a file from a POSIX filesystem, to one which is
case insensitive, and you move it back.  I've had digger.zip and
DIGGER.ZIP because one verison once resided on an MSDOS partition.
 Issues arise when you interact with other systems which don't preserve
case.  Or archivers that may not.

Decent Windows software doesn't change the case, simply because the user likes to see the file exactly as typed. Say "ACatSitsOnTheRoof".
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Cheers, Carlos.