Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them

On 5/1/25 6:45 PM, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Thu, 1 May 2025 13:42:36 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:

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

>
The real evil was the mishmash of DOS and Windows that wound up with
'Program Files' becoming 'progra~1'.

 I question the wisdom of Torvalds on this topic since he allowed
ext filesystems to have an even greater evil than either of those:
newlines in file names! Imagine if the average joe were exposed
to that capability - we'd have multi-paragraph file names to deal
with all over the place.

   I agree that SOME sane degree of rigor SHOULD be
   applied to file names. They're too basic, meaning
   too many ways for it to all go wrong. However
   generally WE don't get to write the kernel and driver
   code here - someone else, who thinks paragraph-length
   names sound SO COOL, are who writes it.
   Frankly, it was allowing spaces in file names that
   pissed me off. Made searching ALL weird. TOO many
   "ALMOST The Same" possibilities. Use hyphens or
   underscores or even dots IMHO ........
   SO ... petition Linus. Make a case.