Case-insensitive filesystem lookups

Posted May 29, 2018 8:37 UTC (Tue) by dgm (subscriber, #49227)
In reply to: Case-insensitive filesystem lookups by k8to
Parent article: Case-insensitive filesystem lookups

> The problem with making the filesystem 'smart' is that the applications which use the filesystem must be able to understand the smartness.

It's worse than that. Some applications will need to be able to *undo* the smartness. It doesn't need to be said that this is hell, if not plainly impossible.