Would that mean that EXT4 is now compatible with Windows?
I know the goal is specifically for better Wine support but wouldn’t this extend to Windows itself?
Obviously it wouldn’t be supported by Windows directly but hypothetically?
I don’t know the technical details of the EXT4 case-insensitive support so maybe someone can shed some light on this.
Not really. Windows only supports FAT and NTFS filesystems natively. There was an old ext-fs driver back in the day, but I have not looked for one in a decade or more. There might be one out there already.
The deal with case-insensative support is likely from Windows users who are annoyed that Readme.md, readme.md, and README.MD are separate files on ext4 but the same file in FAT or NTFS. UNIX and Linux come from a school of thought that allowed you to do things like use different case in filenames.
Would that mean that EXT4 is now compatible with Windows?
I know the goal is specifically for better Wine support but wouldn’t this extend to Windows itself?
Obviously it wouldn’t be supported by Windows directly but hypothetically?
I don’t know the technical details of the EXT4 case-insensitive support so maybe someone can shed some light on this.
Not really. Windows only supports FAT and NTFS filesystems natively. There was an old ext-fs driver back in the day, but I have not looked for one in a decade or more. There might be one out there already.
The deal with case-insensative support is likely from Windows users who are annoyed that Readme.md, readme.md, and README.MD are separate files on ext4 but the same file in FAT or NTFS. UNIX and Linux come from a school of thought that allowed you to do things like use different case in filenames.