Re: Changing a file system from case sensitive to case insensitive...

["Linda A. Walsh" <xfs@tlinx.org>]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> foreach diretory {
> 	read the whole directory structure into memory
> 	rewrite the btree with the case insensitive hash
> }
---
	Looks like a trivial shell script...;^)...

I'm sure there's a bash-app for that...

*sigh*

And here I thought it was as simple as setting a flag on disk.

Sounds like the implementation lends itself to having an extended-attr
to potentially set the option on a dir-by-dir basis 
similar to the +d bit, though it would only apply to dirs and files
within -- but not subdirs (due to different mount locations)?

That might certainly be more flexible than a whole disk as well if it
is practical.

Then as the 'attr' was set, the hash could be rebuilt either inplace,
or created as a newdir with files being moved to the new dir.

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