Subject: Re: Write a translating FS layer instead (Was: Re: Mount option to ignore case)
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/04/2002 11:37:29
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On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 08:42:34AM -0800, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
>=20
> > Now - what seems to be the right thing to me - certainly the right
> > intermediate solution until a "right" method of associating a character
> > encoding with a file name space has been defined - is to write a small
> > intermediate layer to do the mapping you want. Then mount it on top of
> > your Unixoid file system.
>=20
> I see two problems with this. The first is we still have all of the
> problems we were talking about; they are questions about what characters
> are equivalent, not if the test is in the file system. :-)

yes, but you're not breaking formerly-working filesystems by forcing them
into a simplified view, and the administrator can choose which view to=20
present to her users.

Regards,
	Ignatios

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