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Network filesystem topics

Posted May 24, 2018 12:56 UTC (Thu) by JFlorian (guest, #49650)
In reply to: Network filesystem topics by trondmy
Parent article: Network filesystem topics

I'd argue that the true "easiest" solution is a case-sensitive filesystem, but obviously that ship sailed with its disaster in tow. What an unfortunate decision.

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Network filesystem topics

Posted May 25, 2018 2:12 UTC (Fri) by zlynx (guest, #2285) [Link]

I'm not sure which you're claiming as the disaster.

I would claim that anything other than raw bytes is the disaster. Especially after my experience with OSX and HFS where I once had to completely reformat a laptop to remove a few files after Apple decided to change their Unicode normalization rules.

There was simply no way to get to the old filenames and no way to access the files.

Let the GUI deal with case sensitivity if it must. Let the OS API access a file by an unambiguous stream of bytes terminated by a null.