Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them

On 2025-05-01, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:

On 4/30/25 6:00 AM, Borax Man wrote:

On 2025-04-29, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 14:18:48 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:
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As for your file example though, you do demonstrate why one may choose
upper vs lower case, Windows does allow that.  But should they be
*seperate* files?

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It should be your choice.
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Well, you get to choose the filesystem you use.  JFS2 if I recall could
be case insensitive, but i would play havoc with the OS if you used it
in the wron place.  In Windows, can you make it case sensitive?
 

However, I agree with your comment about unicode.  Treating upper and
lower case letters as the same, leads to complicated rules, which may
vary from system to system, and cause chaos.

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Unicode seems to have come up with some standard set of “default” rules
that are independent of any particular localization setting.

 
These would need to be in a standard, one that filesystems can
implement.  But then filesystems would have to implement the same
standard, otherwise, again issues arise.  Can't see this being workable
for end users.

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   So, in essence, the development of case-sensitive
   systems ruined it for case-insensitive  :-)
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   Same now for space-tolerant file names.

Case sensitivity does cause problems here and there, and it was
initially confusing.

But spaces in filenames cause me *far more* headaches.  They are the
greater evil.