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Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/23] t7527: test FS event reporing on macOS WRT case and
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To:     Torsten =?unknown-8bit?Q?B=C3=B6gershausen?= <tboegi@web.de>,
        Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
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On 2/24/22 12:33 PM, Torsten =?unknown-8bit?Q?B=C3=B6gershausen?= wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 09:52:28AM -0500, Derrick Stolee wrote:
>> On 2/15/2022 10:59 AM, Jeff Hostetler via GitGitGadget wrote:
>>> From: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
>>>
>>> Confirm that macOS FS events are reported with a normalized spelling.
>>>
>>> APFS (and/or HFS+) is case-insensitive.  This means that case-independent
> 
[...]
> 
> An interesting article can be found here:
> https://lwn.net/Articles/784041/
> 
> And to be technically correct, I think that even NTFS can be
> "configured to be case insensitive in an empty directory".

Yes, it is now possible to have NTFS be case sensitive (on a
directory by directory basis).  I haven't had a chance to
experiment with this yet, but I'm hoping that if we can always
have the daemon report using the on-disk spelling, we can
avoid most of this insanity.

Thanks,
Jeff