Re: Case insensitive FFS

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Subject: Re: Case insensitive FFS
From: Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 15:08:58 +0100

On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 03:41:21PM +0300, Antti Kantee wrote:
> On Wed Aug 06 2008 at 13:15:22 +0100, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> > how difficult would it be to add a mount option to FFS to have
> > case insensitive filesystem?
> > 
> > My naive idea is that changing ufs_lookup() and the hash functions
> > in the UFS_DIRHASH case to treat upper case letters like lower case
> > letter (or vice versa).
> 
> You'll also need to handle the namecache.

Is that global or per file system?

        Kind regads

-- 
Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/

References:
- Case insensitive FFS
  - From: Matthias Scheler
- Re: Case insensitive FFS
  - From: Antti Kantee

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