Re: reiser4 for windows

[Christian Iversen <chrivers@iversen-net.dk>]

On Wednesday 02 February 2005 02:18, David Masover wrote:
> Christian Iversen wrote:
> | On Tuesday 01 February 2005 09:52, Markus Törnqvist 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
>
> | uses case-insentivity, not case-crushing. This means that the original
>
> case
>
> | has to be saved, but the crushed case has to be searched.
> |
> | I don't know if that's easy with a hash function, but it seems mightly
>
> slow to
>
> | me.
>
> Who said anything about messing with the hash?  Why not just add
> original case as metadata and feed pre-crushed case to the existing
> hash?  Don't think overhead is huge if you're already creating a file.

Well, thinking about it, you seem to be right. I was thinking about something 
else :)

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Regards,
Christian Iversen