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Something something case-insensitive file something... (lemmy.sdf.org)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

A kernel was released that changed how the hash value got computed for casefolded filenames. (used for better windows compatibility) That kernel then went into production. This unfortunately split some file-systems that supported this into two incompatible versions, breaking the kernel rule 1.

There might now exist file-systems were created/modified with this bug present that the old/fixed kernels can't understand.