From: "Linda A. Walsh" <xfs@tlinx.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Changing a file system from case sensitive to case insensitive...
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:47:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A92C43B.1060604@tlinx.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090824144904.GB20898@infradead.org>
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> It's not theoretically impossible, but not implemented right now.
----
How difficult -- would it just be changing a flag
in the super, in the simple case -- i.e. with the result that
a user could lose access to any files of alternate cases?
I know it's not what's there now, but there is a nice search
option in 'Gvim', 'smartcase', where if you use a lower case
search string, it finds strings of either case, but if you explicitly
have any letter capitalized, then it forces a case sensitive search.
That could be a recovery mechanism for conflicts, but would
likely involve more work...
-l
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-24 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-24 12:14 Changing a file system from case sensitive to case insensitive Linda A. Walsh
2009-08-24 14:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-24 16:47 ` Linda A. Walsh [this message]
2009-08-24 17:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-24 18:37 ` Linda A. Walsh
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