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Re:A brief history of APFS (Apple File System) in honour of ... by hibbelig on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @09:59AM (#35357376)
Say that each letter has two versions, and they look exactly alike. This means there are now 8 file names that look like "foo", and it's not clear which one of them you have to type in to get the file you're looking at.
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Re:A brief history of APFS (Apple File System) in honour of ... by vlovich123 on Thursday March 30, 2023 @01:31AM (#35368471)
That’s exactly the problem normalization solves - all variants map the same.
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Re:A brief history of APFS (Apple File System) in honour of ... by hibbelig on Thursday March 30, 2023 @07:48AM (#35371181)
Im sorry, I misread what you were saying. I understood the opposite of what you were saying.
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