Re: UTF-8 and case-insensitivity

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> That's not my problem. That is _your_ problem, and I don't care. I 
> disagree violently with the notion that we would push this down to a 
> filesystem level.
> 
> Sorry, but there are limits to how much we care about broken operating 
> systems.

Side note: this only matters for cold cache entries anyway, so I doubt 
you'll see any performance improvement on a file server from passing the 
brain damage down to the lower levels. 

And I bet the performance advantages of _not_ doing native case 
insensitivity are likely to dominate hugely.

		Linus
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