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re: How to make filenames case insensitive

To: Olaf Frączyk <olaf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: re: How to make filenames case insensitive
From: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: 16 Jan 2003 16:06:49 -0600
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On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 04:52, Olaf Frączyk wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 16:41, Steve Lord wrote:
> > XFS does not have a native way, there has been someone working on a
> > case insensitive XFS, but that involved changing the hash algorithm
> > XFS uses internally and on the disk, so it would not help here.
> Is it in active development or it has been dropped?
> Or you know a case-insensitive filesystem for linux with journaling?

Well, I think it was being done by people who worked for Quantum,
then Quantum spun off their NAS division, but layed off the
developers. Not sure if there is still activity or not.

Steve

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