Re: Mixed case support in XFS

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>]

> 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