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Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them

From The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc, comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them
Date 2025-05-10 09:49 +0100
Organization A little, after lunch
Message-ID <vvn3ue$3eka1$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References (8 earlier) <6815278d$0$12946$426a34cc@news.free.fr> <vv3m8c$273hn$3@dont-email.me> <vv512b$3g7ee$1@dont-email.me> <vv53ja$3gvjn$2@dont-email.me> <wwvmsbkeu7x.fsf@LkoBDZeT.terraraq.uk>

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On 10/05/2025 09:38, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> writes:
>> On 03/05/2025 13:09, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
>>>>       ldo@theon:caseinsens-try> touch try.dat
>>>>       ldo@theon:caseinsens-try> ls -l
>>>>       total 0
>>>>       -rw-r--r-- 1 ldo users 0 May  3 11:57 try.dat
>>>>       ldo@theon:caseinsens-try> mv try.dat TRY.DAT
>>>>       mv: 'try.dat' and 'TRY.DAT' are the same file
>>>>
>>>> I guess Linux isn’t any better ...
>>> It works on my Linux box (Debian Sid).
>>> Heh heh:
>>>
>> And mine (Mint 22)
> 
> I would guess that you’re doing the test on a case-dependent filesystem?
> With vfat and 9p (to NTFS, in WSL) the behavior is as Lawrence
> describes.
> 
Lawrence said it was a feature of Linux, not of the file system in use

-- 
“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy

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Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-04-27 10:21 +0000
  Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-04-28 07:56 -0700
    Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> - 2025-04-28 15:45 +0000
    Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-04-28 13:27 -0400
      Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-28 17:58 +0000
        Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-04-28 15:46 -0400
          Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-29 01:13 +0000
            Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-30 10:29 +0000
              Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-30 17:48 +0000
    Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-04-28 19:50 +0000
      Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-04-28 16:44 -0400
        Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-29 01:33 +0000
      Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-29 01:16 +0000
  Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-04-28 11:12 -0700
    Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-04-28 18:56 +0000
      Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-04-28 12:31 -0700
        Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-04-28 20:03 +0000
          Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2025-04-29 01:30 +0000
            Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-29 04:13 +0000
              Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> - 2025-04-29 10:00 +0000
          Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-05-05 09:23 -0700
      Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them Andreas Eder <a_eder_muc@web.de> - 2025-04-29 10:18 +0200
      Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-29 14:18 +0000
      Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them Andreas Dehmel <blackhole.8.zarquon42@spamgourmet.com> - 2025-04-29 20:11 +0200
        Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-04-29 19:04 +0000
          Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them Andreas Dehmel <blackhole.8.zarquon42@spamgourmet.com> - 2025-04-30 21:09 +0200
            Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-05-02 20:14 +0000
              Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-02 23:59 +0000
                Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-05-03 08:09 -0400
                Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-03 13:52 +0100
                Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-03 22:54 +0000
                Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-05-09 21:25 +0000
                Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-05-09 17:53 -0400
                Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-10 09:38 +0100
                Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-10 09:49 +0100
                Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-10 11:06 +0100
                Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-05-10 11:20 +0000
                Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them Andreas Eder <a_eder_muc@web.de> - 2025-05-03 16:48 +0200
    Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-29 02:43 +0000
      Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-04-29 19:10 +0000
  Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Gates Loves Them (was: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them) Tyrone <none@none.none> - 2025-04-29 21:18 +0000
    Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Gates Loves Them (was: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them) Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-04-30 08:50 +0000

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