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 Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei to Lars Poulsen 
 Re: Case-dependent file systems 
 07 Jan 26 02:09:54 
 
From: ldo@nz.invalid

On Wed, 7 Jan 2026 00:27:30 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote:

> On 2026-01-06, Lawrence D’Oliveiro  wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 6 Jan 2026 18:48:30 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote:
>>
>>> I REALLY wish that I could get the Windows behavior as a mount
>>> option in Linux ...
>>
>> You can .
>
> That article is from 2019 and says someone has worked on a set of
> patches, but Linus Torvalds himself has vetoed accepting them into
> the kernel ...

They are in the kernel now. I have tried the new feature, and it
works.

> Note that all content is lost as mkfs will recreate a fresh
> filesystem, so you either will need to prepare in advance and either
> backup/restore or reinstall the games/contents in the drive after
> reformatting.

This is why you have backups.

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