linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] ext4/036: Add tests for filename casefolding feature

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Date:   Thu, 6 Jun 2019 22:23:31 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com>
Cc:     tytso@....edu, fstests@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        "Lakshmipathi.G" <lakshmipathi.ganapathi@...labora.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] ext4/036: Add tests for filename casefolding
 feature

On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 03:31:38PM -0400, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
> From: "Lakshmipathi.G" <lakshmipathi.ganapathi@...labora.co.uk>
> 
> This new test implements verification for the per-directory
> case-insensitive feature, as supported in the reference implementation
> in Ext4.  Currently, this test only supports Ext4, but the plan is to
> run it in other filesystems, once they support the feature.
> 
> For now, let it live in ext4 and we move to shared/ or generic/ when
> other filesystems supporting this feature start to pop up.

Please keep it in shared/ from the start.  There isn't really anything
ext4 specific.  In fact xfs already supports CI file systems, just
without utf8 tables for now.