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Re: [I18ndir] I-D on filesystem I18N

John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Wed, 08 July 2020 20:38 UTC

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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: [I18ndir] I-D on filesystem I18N
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In article <9044C737C36C0787B9EAE190@PSB> you write:
>Well, Unix, and every Unix-derived system I know of (definitely
>including Linux, FreeBSD, and NetBSD) are case-sensitive and
>getting anywhere near their file names with Case Folding or even
>lower casing will cause rather interesting problems. 

FWIW MacOS is Unix underneath and its native file system is case
folding.  I've been surprised how little trouble it's caused when
I'm moving code back and forth to FreeBSD and even NFS mounting
my MacOS filesystem on FreeBSD virtual machines.

The point about ZFS is also a good one, since it's gotten very popular
on BSD and Solaris due to its flexible disk management. (Less so on
most linux distros due to poor kernel integration.) It gives you a
per-filesystem choice of case sensitifity, and also optionally doing
any of the four Unicode normalizations on filenames.

R's,
John

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