Re: REVIEW: ASCII CI support in xfsprogs

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 02:37:11PM +1000, Barry Naujok wrote:
> I've reworked xfsprogs userspace tools from scratch with ASCII CI support
> only. Much simpler than previous patches with Unicode CI.
>
> One issue that sort of bugs me a bit is I've maintained the same output as
> the original IRIX mkfs.xfs with CI mode:
> naming   =version 2              bsize=4096   mixed-case=Y|N
>
> where "N" = CI enabled and "Y" = normal case-senstive filesystem.
>
> Should this be changed to something clearer?

I'd prefer something cleaner.  Like case-insensitive=Y|N.  Otherwise
the patch looks fine, but I wonder if you shouldn't better backport the
xfs_dir* files from the kernel completely instead of applying the
changes selectively, otherwise we'll get totoally out of sync codebases.