Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] fs: Add case sensitivity info to file_kattr

Theodore Tso
2025-12-12T02:19:07Z

On Thu, Dec 11, 2025 at 08:16:45PM -0500, Chuck Lever wrote:
>
> > I see you're proposing that ext4, fat, and ntfs3 all set
> > FILEATTR_CASEFOLD_UNICODE, at least in some cases.
> >
> > That seems odd, since they don't do the matching the same way.
>
> The purpose of this series is to design the VFS infrastructure. Exactly what
> it reports is up to folks who actually understand i18n.

Do we know who would be receiving this information and what their needs might be?

- Ted