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From: "Vyacheslav Dubeyko" <slava@dubeyko.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: detecting case-insensitivity
Date: Mon,  9 Apr 2012 09:01:11 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <LBVkglc6jtb7.r3bLKBnl@host202.hostmonster.com> (raw)


Initial message
> Subject: Re: detecting case-insensitivity
> From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
> Date: 09.04.2012 03.30
> 
> On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 10:00:29AM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > Is there a generic way to detect whether a given filesystem is
> > case-insensitive?  If not, how should it be done?  (A bit in s_flags?)
> 
> I don't think there is a generic flag for it. We could trivially add
> one, I think, as it is generally a fixed property for the entire
> filesystem....
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.
> -- 
> Dave Chinner
> david@fromorbit.com
> 
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But why does it need to detect that filesystem case-insensitive or not? In what use-case does it need to make such detection?

With the best regards,
Vyacheslav Dubeyko.
slava@dubeyko.com

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             reply	other threads:[~2012-04-09  4:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-09  5:01 Vyacheslav Dubeyko [this message]
2012-04-09 21:28 ` detecting case-insensitivity J. Bruce Fields
2012-04-09 22:19   ` Dave Chinner
2012-04-09 22:27     ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-04-09 22:44       ` Dave Chinner
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-04-07 14:00 J. Bruce Fields
2012-04-08 23:02 ` Dave Chinner
2012-04-11 20:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-04-11 20:37   ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-04-30 21:26     ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-04-30 23:01       ` Dave Chinner
2012-05-03 20:22         ` J. Bruce Fields

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