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Posted Oct 31, 2016 16:21 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Documentation/ references by zdzichu
Parent article: A report from the documentation maintainer

Not true. NTFS is case-preserving but not case-sensitive. You _can_ create files on NTFS that differ only in case, but it will cause a lot of problems (like not being able to delete them using regular tools).

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Posted Nov 7, 2016 4:10 UTC (Mon) by JanC_ (guest, #34940) [Link] (2 responses)

NTFS is case sensitive.

The NT kernel supports case sensitive file systems.

The Windows subsystems & applications using it have problems with it.

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Posted Nov 7, 2016 4:44 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (1 responses)

NTFS stores case mapping in a metafile called "$UpCase". You are free to ignore it and write files named "Foo" and "FOO" but this will break the Windows API.

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Posted Nov 7, 2016 12:16 UTC (Mon) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

It is fun to use a Samba share from Linux and create files Windows has problems with and explore that way. Creating a file named CON gets mangled in Explorer to some string X. Create a file named X and Explorer cannot delete the CON file until the other disappears (selecting the right file does not work; deletion is by name). Similar shenanigans happen with mixed cases.