[Gnu-arch-users] case preserving vs. case insensitive

[Pierce T . Wetter III]

> Personally, I have a little bit of trouble taking case insentive
> filesystems seriously.

  That's because you're a nuts and bolts geek instead of a UI geek like 
me. :-)

  Note that English, is CaSe InsEnsiTive.

  Other languages can be even worse, that case is even less significant 
then in english.

  So it makes no sense to have the UI case sensitive when the user 
isn't.

  Note that most file systems are actually case preserving, in that the 
file names are stored on disk with the specified case, but you can 
specify the file with the wrong case in UI tools and it will give you 
the right file.

  Mac OS X for instance, tends to be case insensitive in the GUI, but 
the command line interface is case sensitive. The file system is case 
preserving.


  -Pierce