Case insensitive but case preserving coming to Linux ext4 ?

[David Disseldorp]

On Fri, 11 Nov 2016 14:03:38 -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 05, 2016 at 08:44:36PM +0200, Uri Simchoni wrote:
> > On 11/04/2016 08:56 PM, Jeremy Allison wrote:  
> > > From Ted:
> > > 
> > > https://thunk.org/tytso/casei-fs.html
> > > 
> > > Looks interesting !
> > > 
> > > Jeremy.
> > >   
> > How significant is the ASCII-only support? I see Samba has a Unicode
> > tolower table...  
> 
> Well I'll take what I can get here :-).

If you do plan some sort of ASCII case-insensitive fast-path for Samba,
then keep in mind that XFS supports ASCII CI via:
mkfs.xfs -n version=ci

IIRC, the last XFS Unicode CI implementation was proposed at:
http://oss.sgi.com/pipermail/xfs/2014-September/038115.html

Cheers, David