Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them

rbowman <bowman@montana.com> writes:

Richard Kettlewell wrote:

I suspect the filename restrictions would make FAT as a rootfs
challenging.

>
vfat does show up as the format for /boot/efi or a similar location
for UEFI systems. It's small, just enough to satisfy the UEFI and get
things going.

That’s the ESP, not the root filesystem. Linux doesn’t get to choose the
filesystem used on the ESP, it’s part of the UEFI specification.

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