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It's not a Linux distro thing, all Linux, BSD, Solaris, etc systems are case sensitive because it's the 21st century. The only widely used file system without
by rhinoceraptor 11y ago
It's not a Linux distro thing, all Linux, BSD, Solaris, etc systems are case sensitive because it's the 21st century.
The only widely used file system without case sensitivity is HFS[1]. NTFS to its credit is case sensitive, but Win32 is not, for legacy reasons (same reason as why MAX_PATH still plagues Windows).
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Features https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Fea...
- mrsteveman1 11y agoAnd if you actually go out of your way to try and use the case sensitive HFS+ on a Mac, you have a pretty good chance of getting tripped up by user space software that doesn't like it, like Photoshop[1]. [1] https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/error-case-sensitive-drives-supported.html https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/error-case-sensiti...
- rkeene2 11y agoZFS supports being case-insensitive.