Re: [Bug 298254] FreeBSD tmpfs case-insensitive support

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From: Eike Dierks <eike_at_dierks.dev>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:16:10 UTC

There have been a lot of discussions
around this topic.

Linus decided it:
There should be *NO* conversion,
of the names in the filesystem layer.

The names should be used without *ANY* conversion.
It should be the original bytes of the argument as provided.

This was not stated in posix,
but this is now how Linux works.

Or to rewind it:
we do not manipulate arguments in the kernel.