On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 04:25:10PM +1000, Barry Naujok wrote: > Implement ASCII case-insensitive support. It's primary purpose > is for supporting existing filesystems that already use this > case-insensitive mode migrated from IRIX. But, if you only need > ASCII-only case-insensitive support (ie. English only) and will > never use another language, then this mode is perfectly adequate. > > ASCII-CI is implemented by generating hashes based on lower-case > letters and doing lower-case compares. It implements a new > xfs_nameops vector for doing the hashes and comparisons for > all filename operations. > > It also overrides the Linux dentry cache operations with its > own hash and compare functions (the same as used in the xfs_nameops > vector). > > To create a filesystem with this CI mode, use: > # mkfs.xfs -n version=ci <device> Since you have to mkfs anyway, why not just use the unicode mkfs option, and the ci mount option. Then, you can just drop this patch :) Josef 'Jeff' Sipek. -- Ready; T=0.01/0.01 20:32:39 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
