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Tmpfs Adding Case Insensitive Support For Wine / Steam Play & Flatpaks
In addition to the EXT4 and XFS atomic write support, another interesting pull request sent in today by Microsoft's Christian Brauner is adding case-insensitive file/folder support for the Tmpfs file-system to benefit use-cases like Wine / Steam Play compatibility layers and sandboxing/container facilities like Flatpak.
In addition to the EXT4 and XFS atomic write support, another interesting pull request sent in today by Microsoft's Christian Brauner is adding case-insensitive file/folder support for the Tmpfs file-system to benefit use-cases like Wine / Steam Play compatibility layers and sandboxing/container facilities like Flatpak. As with the other file-systems, the case insensitive lookup ability is being driven in part for enhancing compatibility layers like Wine and in turn Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for better dealing with Windows software that isn't always graceful around case sensitive file-systems. With Tmpfs being a temporary file-system residing in RAM, there are some differences in handling compared to the case folding on EXT4 and F2FS.
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