From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id n7OGv6gU136888 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:57:16 -0500 Received: from Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id D6DC01520E31 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:57:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org (ishtar.tlinx.org [64.81.245.74]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id L5O8CX6DTDL9Gpv4 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:57:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A92C43B.1060604@tlinx.org> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:47:55 -0700 From: "Linda A. Walsh" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Changing a file system from case sensitive to case insensitive... References: <4A928413.4050205@tlinx.org> <20090824144904.GB20898@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20090824144904.GB20898@infradead.org> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: xfs-oss 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 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs