linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6] overlayfs + casefolding

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Message-ID: <CAOQ4uxhnOMPTBd+k4UVPvAWYLhJWOdV4FbyKa_+a=cqK9Chr2A@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2025 22:30:16 +0200
From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>
To: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-bcachefs@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-unionfs@...r.kernel.org, 
	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>, Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, 
	Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] overlayfs + casefolding

On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM Kent Overstreet
> <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 04:33:14PM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> > > I am saying that IMO a smaller impact (and less user friendly) fix is more
> > > appropriate way to deal with this problem.
> >
> > What do you think about doing your approach as a stopgap?
> >
> > It seems this is hitting a lot of people, something we can backport to
> > 6.15 would be good to have.
>
> Yes, I think I can do that.
> Will try to get to it next week.
>

On second look, here is a compile-basic-sanity-tested patch.

Care to test if it does the job for you?

Thanks,
Amir.

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