Filesystems and case-insensitivity
Filesystems and case-insensitivity
Posted Nov 29, 2018 12:20 UTC (Thu) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)In reply to: Filesystems and case-insensitivity by dgm
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You presume that there *is* a canonical representation of a file name. For case-preserving file systems, there is no such thing.
Posted Nov 29, 2018 15:23 UTC (Thu)
by dgm (subscriber, #49227)
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Filesystems and case-insensitivity
Well, nobody was talking about case preservation, but now that you mention it, you have three options:
- use the filesystem as case preserving (and give up case insensitivity)
- use the filesystem as canse-insensitive (and forget about case preservation)
- use xattrs
And all that, without touching a single line of kernel code.