On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 07:14:56PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > I talked to Christoph at the Plumbers Closing party, and he suggested > that we get something simple in first which (a) assumes no on-disk > format changes, (b) does everything in the VFS layer, by using a > MS_CASE_FOLD, uses a case-insensitive dentry hash, and which degrades > to a brute force search in the VFS by using readdir interfaces if the > direct lookup does not succeed, and (c) at least initially assumes > only ASCII. > > This could be extended by individual file systems who are willing to > make on-disk format changes. OK, as long people are ok with things going wonky when the filesystem is mounted without those mount options, I'm not really fussed... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
