Re:Using the Linux kernel's Case-insensitive feature in Ext4
by bxparks on Sunday August 30, 2020 @03:31PM
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I swear that my Windows 10 File Explorer had this problem.
Here is a user complaint about this problem from Nov 2019: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/cant-r...
Here's another post from May 2018, explicitly mentioning Windows 10: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/why-ca...
But I checked again on my own Windows 10 machine (Windows 10 Pro, Version 2004, build 19041.450) and holy shit, it now works. It must have been fixed in a recent Window 10 update.
Re:Using the Linux kernel's Case-insensitive feature in Ext4
by tiraniddo on Sunday August 30, 2020 @01:17PM
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If you enabled the posix subsystem NTFS became case sensitive as well, although most API passed a flag to disable that for Win32 file calls.
It’s interesting that Microsoft effectively added the reverse feature to NTFS [1] to support per-directory case sensitive files to be more compatible with Linux.
[1] https://www.tiraniddo.dev/2019/02/ntfs-case-sensitivity-on-w...
Just tested on Windows 10 and this is definitely not true. I could have sworn you could always do it, but my memory of Windows < 10 is foggy. And you can also do the renaming from any console app (cmd, powershell, etc), FYI.
NTFS is case-preserving, but case-insensitive. That, IMO is a good balance. When they were first making NT with the posix subsystem, I suppose they found that the number of cases where two files that only differed in case lived in the same directory were small enough to not matter.
I personally don't think case-sensitivity in file names adds anything useful.