[clug] case-insensitive file system
David Gibson
david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Wed Jun 16 00:54:45 GMT 2004
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 10:44:56AM +1000, Michael Still wrote:
> Kim Holburn wrote:
>
> >For a particular use I need a case-insensitive file system. Short of
> >using samba and doing a remount, does anyone know of a way of doing this
> >under linux. Is there an ext2/3 option to do this? is there an fs that
> >can do this?
>
> I can't see an option for ext2 in the mount man page. If ext2 doesn't do
> it, then ext3 wont either.
>
> This sounds like a fairly trivial userspace filesystem task, although if
> you have serious performance requirements then that might not be the
> right answer. Are case sensitive clients also going to be using the
> filesystem, or just the case insensitive ones?
No, it's really not a trivial task in userspace. The only way to do a
case-insensitve lookup from userspace is list and scan the entire
directory manually. Ugly and slow.
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