Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 12:12:58 +0800 From: Greg Lehey <grog@freebsd.org> To: Craig Reyenga <creyenga@connectmail.carleton.ca> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What about a case insensitive Filesystem? Message-ID: <20030126041258.GD3818@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <001101c2c4e4$51686960$0200000a@sewer.org> References: <001101c2c4e4$51686960$0200000a@sewer.org>
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On Saturday, 25 January 2003 at 21:40:41 -0500, Craig Reyenga wrote: > <begin potentially dumb question> > Is there any way, either now or in the future, for FreeBSD to be able to > have a UFS-based case-insensitive filesystem? It would be great for many > applications, such as Samba servers, web servers catered to the general > public (angelfire, geocities) > Is this at all possible? > <end potentially dumb question> I'm sure there are ways. I'm not sure that anybody wants to do it. Firstly, what do you mean by "case"? Many languages don't have case. German has one letter (ß) which only exists in lower case. Other ISO 8859-1 languages have different letters and thus different case pairs. Some Microsoft casing conventions are so baroque that it depends on how you access them as to how they get upper-cased. It's a can of worms. > and places where the user just doesn't care. If the user doesn't care, there's no problem with a case-sensitive file system. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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