Renaming a jpeg, changing the original file?

I belived that LR5 was a non-destructive program. I have been told repetadly that all information was stored in the catalog and the original files are safe.
However when I now renamed my old jpeg-files from within LR5, I found that the original filenames was changed by LR5!
1) Does the renaming process only save the new filename (EXIF/metadata) in the original file or are the full image saved?
My concern is since jpeg is destructive format I will loss a generation and I may end up having a result I do not want.
2) Anyone know a good relable source to some facts about how EXIF information and metadata are actually handled?
Looking forward to your feed-back.

biggles-2 wrote:...  LR5 never touches the originals
This is an incorrect statement
it is true that Lightroom never touches the image portion of the original jpg file. However, there are many other ways in which Lightroom can modify the original jpg file, just not the image portion.
To me changing name from for example IMG957 to 201403_K5II_0957, will give me advantages within LR5 and LR5 saves the information in the catalogue and nowhere else.
If Lightroom thinks the name is 201403_K5II_0957 and your operating system thinks the name is IMG957, then Lightroom will not be able to find the file, and thus will not be able to perform any operations on this file. So it gives you no advantages whatsoever, in fact it make Lightroom useless on this file.
I would also suggest/recommend that you organize via keywords and other metadata, rather than use file names as a place to store metadata like K5II, whatever that is. There are many reasons for this, but quickly, this is the strength of Lightroom, and the weakness of file names and operating system constructs, in my opinion.

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