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

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Message-ID: <20150515234320.GJ4316@dastard>
Date:	Sat, 16 May 2015 09:43:20 +1000
From:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
To:	Jeremy Allison <jra@...ba.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, vl@...net.de
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCHSET v3] non-recursive pathname resolution & RCU
 symlinks

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@...ba.org> 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.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@...morbit.com
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