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From: Christian Iversen <chrivers@iversen-net.dk>
Subject: Re: reiser4 for windows
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 10:59:37 +0100
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On Tuesday 01 February 2005 09:52, Markus T=F6rnqvist wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 08:37:13AM -0800, Hans Reiser wrote:
> >>Could reiser4 support case-crushing, so it would be more
> >> "windows-native"?
> >
> >It could, as a plugin.
>
> Reiser4 has a sys interface already, why not add echo 1 > case_crush or
> somesuch? Shouldn't take a long time to code, but it shouldn't be a
> priority and no one would really want it, I guess...

I support your idea, but keep in mind that, to make matters worse, windows=
=20
uses case-insentivity, not case-crushing. This means that the original case=
=20
has to be saved, but the crushed case has to be searched.=20

I don't know if that's easy with a hash function, but it seems mightly slow=
 to=20
me.=20

=2D-=20
Regards,
Christian Iversen