Re: [RFC][PATCHSET v3] non-recursive pathname resolution & RCU symlinks

From: Dave Chinner
Date: Fri May 15 2015 - 19:43:47 EST


On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 04:57:22PM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 04:24:13PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Jeremy Allison <jra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Of course we tell people to just set their filesystems
> > > up using mkfs.xfs -n version=ci :-).
> >
> > So ASCII-only case-insensitivity is sufficient for you guys?
>
> No it's not enough really. But for specific Windows apps that
> use restricted namespaces (and there are such) it works.
>
> ZFS on *BSD does do full case-insenitive lookups (utf8) as part of
> FreeNAS. I think if it's configured a SMB-only share they turn
> that on.

Ad some people are using this on Linux:

http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2014-09/msg00169.html

Cheers,

Dave.
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