From owner-freebsd-fs Sat Jan 25 20:13:30 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89AC037B401 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 20:13:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from sydney.lemis.com (dhcp80.trinity.linux.conf.au [130.95.169.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C13D43E4A for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 20:13:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: from sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (grog@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sydney.lemis.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0Q4Cx4c004341; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 12:12:59 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from grog@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0Q4CwXA004340; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 12:12:58 +0800 (WST) Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 12:12:58 +0800 From: Greg Lehey To: Craig Reyenga Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What about a case insensitive Filesystem? Message-ID: <20030126041258.GD3818@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <001101c2c4e4$51686960$0200000a@sewer.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <001101c2c4e4$51686960$0200000a@sewer.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Saturday, 25 January 2003 at 21:40:41 -0500, Craig Reyenga wrote: > > 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? > 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