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0 pointsjolux4y ago0 comments

> Oh, and that password? Not case sensitive.

What, you expect them to make a case-sensitive version of NTFS just to store your password??

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NTFS is case-sensitive.

They made a case-insensitive version of NTFS just to store your password

It is case-preserving, but not case-sensitive.

So, it will show you what was entered and make you think it’s case-sensitive, but then when you go to do the comparison, it actually ignores case.

The stupid thing is that MacOS was also case-preserving but not case-sensitive for a long time.

APFS still defaults to case-preserving:

    [nathell@macmini /tmp]$ echo first > A
    [nathell@macmini /tmp]$ echo second > a
    [nathell@macmini /tmp]$ cat A
    second

That's how Windows will behave but not actually how the underlying filesystem does.

joluxOP4y ago

I think it’s internally case sensitive and provides case insensitive APIs to users, right?

Right, win32 is insensitive

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