Filesystems and case-insensitivity
Filesystems and case-insensitivity
Posted Nov 29, 2018 6:39 UTC (Thu) by lkundrak (subscriber, #43452)In reply to: Filesystems and case-insensitivity by quotemstr
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Is "there could already be files with a form feed in their name" a good justification?
Posted Nov 29, 2018 21:04 UTC (Thu)
by perennialmind (guest, #45817)
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Filesystems and case-insensitivity
That would be a potential problem for a mount option, but not when setting a per-directory attribute, since the directory must be empty. The same problem applies to the name collision problem though. Imposing new semantics on a filesystem would be problematic. Maybe with a superblock change? Meh. The per-directory attribute just seems cleaner overall.