Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 20:14:31 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Craig Reyenga <creyenga@connectmail.carleton.ca> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What about a case insensitive Filesystem? Message-ID: <20030126041431.GE85104@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <001101c2c4e4$51686960$0200000a@sewer.org> References: <001101c2c4e4$51686960$0200000a@sewer.org>
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* Craig Reyenga <creyenga@connectmail.carleton.ca> [030125 18:40] 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) and places where the user just doesn't care. > Is this at all possible? > <end potentially dumb question> > > (I'm not on the list, so CC'ing would be great) It should not be very hard to do, the only issue might be some interoperability with directory hashing, but that can probably be fixed by just lower/uppercasing the names before building the hash and doing the lookup. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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