linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] tune2fs: allow disabling casefold feature

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Date:   Thu, 7 Jul 2022 18:30:36 +0000
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
To:     Slava Bacherikov <slava@...her09.org>
Cc:     tytso@....edu, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, krisman@...labora.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tune2fs: allow disabling casefold feature

On Thu, Jul 07, 2022 at 07:54:00PM +0300, Slava Bacherikov wrote:
> Casefold can be safely disabled if there are no directories with +F
> attribute ( EXT4_CASEFOLD_FL ). This checks all inodes for that flag and in
> case there isn't any, it disables casefold FS feature. When FS has
> directories with +F attributes, user could convert these directories,
> probably by mounting FS and executing some script or by doing it
> manually. Afterwards, it would be possible to disable casefold FS flag
> via tune2fs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Slava Bacherikov <slava@...her09.org>

Can you please update the man page misc/tune2fs.8.in as well?

- Eric