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From: Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 16:44:08 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 08:00:14 -0700, John Ames wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 10:21:55 +0000
> Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote:
> 
>> We all should hate case insensitive file systems.
> 
> Why?

Apparently, because case folding is hard, and there are edge cases
that have no general case handling.

-- 
Lew Pitcher
"In Skills We Trust"