Re: [RFC 0/2] Case-insensitive filename lookup for XFS

[Martin Steigerwald <ms@xxxxxxxxx>]

Am Mittwoch, 24. Oktober 2007 schrieb Barry Naujok:
> On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:22:21 +1000, Martin Steigerwald <ms@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > What would happen in the following scenario?
> >
> > mount -t xfs /dev/somedevice /mnt/tmp
> > touch /mnt/tmp/testfile
> > touch /mnt/tmp/Testfile
> > touch /mnt/tmp/TESTFILE
> >
> > mount -t xfs -o remount,ci /dev/somedevice /mnt/tmp
> > rm /mnt/tmp/testfile
>
> testfile would be deleted, Testfile and TESTFILE will remain.
> Subsequent rm's should remove the rest.

Sounds indeed quite clever to me ;-)

I look forward to that feature which could be interesting for samba file 
shares cause samba would not have to map case-insensitive paths from Windows 
to the case-sensitive paths under Linux anymore.

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