Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them

On 6 May 2025 09:10:57 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

Perhaps, but since he wasn't using existing UNIX filesystems and using a
custom one instead, it seems to me like he had a choice. After all you
can still use FAT or NTFS on Linux even though they have more disallowed
filename characters. It could have been the same with ext* forbidding
newlines (also tmpfs etc.). Then you'd only have to worry about handling
newlines in the rare case of reading from some non-Linux filesystems
like UFS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINIX_file_system

The 'extended file system' was an extension of MINIX. How much of the
technical workings of the Unix file system remained after being filtered
through Tannenbaum and the extension would be an interesting question. As
far as the layout it didn't fall far from the tree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_filesystem