Re: [REVIEW 0/2] Case insensitive support for XFS

["Barry Naujok" <bnaujok@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:12:21 +1100, Nathan Scott <nscott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 12:05 +1100, Barry Naujok wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:30:14 +1100, Nathan Scott <nscott@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 19:05 +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > >
> > >> can switch between enable / disable case-insensitivity via a mount
> > >> option.
> > >
> > > No.
> >
> > Umm, that's a yes :)
> Ahem, you snipped the context precending that question!
> Surely you can't switch, unless the case-insensitive mkfs option was
> used initially...?  (unlike, say attr2, which can be enabled on-the-fly
> with a mount option, on existing attr1 filesystems).
You mkfs with unicode/utf8, ci is indeed a mount option which can be turned
on and off on the fly. True, you can't just do it on any existing
filesystem (except the undocumented/unrecommended xfs_db/xfs_repair  
method).
Barry.