Changing a file system from case sensitive to case insensitive...
Linda A. Walsh
xfs at tlinx.org
Mon Aug 24 13:37:54 CDT 2009
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> foreach diretory {
> read the whole directory structure into memory
> rewrite the btree with the case insensitive hash
> }
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Looks like a trivial shell script...;^)...
I'm sure there's a bash-app for that...
*sigh*
And here I thought it was as simple as setting a flag on disk.
Sounds like the implementation lends itself to having an extended-attr
to potentially set the option on a dir-by-dir basis
similar to the +d bit, though it would only apply to dirs and files
within -- but not subdirs (due to different mount locations)?
That might certainly be more flexible than a whole disk as well if it
is practical.
Then as the 'attr' was set, the hash could be rebuilt either inplace,
or created as a newdir with files being moved to the new dir.
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