Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

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> On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Reece Dunn wrote:
>> 
>>   1.  File name representation
>> 
>> For Linux file systems (correct me if I am wrong here), they all store
>> the file name as-is. The question here is what happens on
>> Windows-based file systems (e.g. NTFS) that are being read on Linux?
>
> Generally, Linux tries to follow the conventions of the filesystem, so 
> it's generally case-preserving and case-sensitive (but not normalizing in 
> any way - the case sensitivity is literally a upcase lookup table, so you 
> do "upcase(c1) == upcase(c2)" for each UCS-2 character, no combining or 
> decomposition).

s/sensitiv/insensitiv/g

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