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Filesystems and case-insensitivity

Filesystems and case-insensitivity

Posted Nov 29, 2018 12:43 UTC (Thu) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
In reply to: Filesystems and case-insensitivity by alonz
Parent article: Filesystems and case-insensitivity

They were written before random user-specified attributes were a thing, much less one you could rely on to be present (more or less). Even today you can easily create file systems without xattr support.

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Filesystems and case-insensitivity

Posted Nov 29, 2018 15:11 UTC (Thu) by alonz (subscriber, #815) [Link]

Since kernel support for case insensitivity is currently even less if a thing, I still wonder...

(I may be tempted to write a PoC of this idea and see how it performs, just for curiosity's sake)


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