linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ext4: Use generic casefolding support

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Message-ID: <20201029041259.GS5691@mit.edu>
Date:   Thu, 29 Oct 2020 00:12:59 -0400
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Daniel Rosenberg <drosen@...gle.com>
Cc:     Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-team@...roid.com, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Use generic casefolding support

On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 05:08:20AM +0000, Daniel Rosenberg wrote:
> This switches ext4 over to the generic support provided in libfs.
> 
> Since casefolded dentries behave the same in ext4 and f2fs, we decrease
> the maintenance burden by unifying them, and any optimizations will
> immediately apply to both.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Rosenberg <drosen@...gle.com>
> Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks.

					- Ted