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kgyesterday at 5:31 PM1 replyview on HN

Isn't case insensitivity a Win32 thing only? I would not expect it to impact stuff in Hyper-V or the windows kernel. AFAIK for example NTFS is case-sensitive.


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wizzwizz4today at 12:35 AM

NTFS supports case-sensitivity, but if you have case-sensitive distinctions in a directory that's marked case-insensitive, bad things happen. (Those bad things are probably entirely deterministic, theoretically-predictable, and documented in one of Raymond Chen's big books of Windows sadness, but that doesn't mean I want to deal with them as a mere mortal.)