
16 Sep
2019
16 Sep
'19
12:33 a.m.
By the way, given that the last Debian Unstable upgrade gave me Linux 5.2, I went through the release notes for that, and found this new “Optional support for case-insensitive names in ext4” feature <https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.2#Optional_support_for_case-insensitive_names_in_ext4>. Linus has (understandably) expressed great skepticism about the need for this feature in native Linux filesystems. It has been very messy and troublesome to support on other platforms <https://lwn.net/Articles/784041/>.