Case-insensitive ext4

Posted Mar 28, 2019 2:05 UTC (Thu) by dw (subscriber, #12017)
In reply to: Case-insensitive ext4 by clugstj
Parent article: Case-insensitive ext4

as a recent MacOS refugee, frankly I find dicking around with case intensely annoying on a desktop after discovering things don't have to be that way. Sure it's supposed to be in userspace -- good luck with that. Darwin has an approach that works for users, and I'd be very happy to enable this flag the moment it becomes available.

Was disgusted just last night to discover a Gtk chooser dialog's autocomplete was case sensitive. In a GUI. Total disconnect between Linux and what the real world has been doing successfully for decades now..

Case-insensitive ext4

Posted Mar 28, 2019 10:44 UTC (Thu) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link]

Case-insensitivity on ext4 volumes has to be done in userspace, because doing it in the kernel breaks userspace.

I agree that the Gtk file chooser having case-sensitive autocomplete is daft, but... I don't actually care, because I hate the Gtk file chooser anyway for other, more fundamental design decisions.