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Linus Torvalds Expresses His Hatred For Case-Insensitive File-Systems (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why shouldn't I be able to have the files mare.png (a photo of a horse) and MarE.png (a photo taken on a vacation in March, fifth in the series after MarA, MarB, MarC, and MarD)?

Or rainsley (a text file, no extension, with notes about a story I'm writing) and Rainsley (a directory with art of the same character the file is named after)?

Do I strictly need to be able to do these things? No, of course not. But the file system is more flexible and functional if I am able to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Because humans don't actually work that way

Also on user-oriented operating systems you can have spaces in file names without issue