On Mon, Apr 08, 2024 at 04:30:55AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > As I understand it, an important usecase for the casefold feature is > running Windows games under WINE. I don't do this myself (sgt-puzzles > is more my speed), but there's a pretty important market for this. > Wasn't this why Gabriel was funded to work on it (eg commit b886ee3e778e)? > Or was that the Android usecase? Good point. Your history is correct; the other use case, which Gabriel was funded to do the work for, was for Steam for Linux, which uses a fork of Wine called Stream Play. The other potential use case for casefold is that it would accelarate Samba servers, which will first try to do a lookup on the filename but if it gets ENOENT, has to do an O(1) readdir search to see if there is a case insensitive match to the given lookup. I haven't heard of anyone who has actually configured their CIFS server to do this, but it should work. - Ted
