Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-xfs); Fri, 23 May 2003 08:02:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Cantor.suse.de (ns.suse.de [213.95.15.193]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id h4NF2n2x004263 for ; Fri, 23 May 2003 08:02:50 -0700 Received: from Hermes.suse.de (Hermes.suse.de [213.95.15.136]) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 739BA14DCF; Fri, 23 May 2003 17:02:44 +0200 (MEST) Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 17:02:43 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Keith Owens Cc: Andi Kleen , linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Mixed case support in XFS Message-ID: <20030523150243.GD24098@wotan.suse.de> References: <20030523142410.GB24098@wotan.suse.de> <5837.1053700987@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5837.1053700987@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> X-archive-position: 4121 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: ak@suse.de Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-xfs Content-Length: 504 Lines: 12 > Easily handled with a tweak to locasefs. creat() and readdir() > preserve case, stat() and open() on existing files drop the filenames > to lower case. But as Steve says, Irix has the same problem, so LUFS > is not a permanent fix. It might be an acceptable workaround for Linux > users in the short term. AFAIK samba does it already internally, but the algorithms they use for this (which are more accurate than your hack) are relatively costly, so they prefer to get file system support. -Andi