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Subject: Re: How to make filenames case insensitive
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Olaf Fra;czyk wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 16:41, Steve Lord wrote:
> 
>>XFS does not have a native way, there has been someone working on a
>>case insensitive XFS, but that involved changing the hash algorithm
>>XFS uses internally and on the disk, so it would not help here.
> 
> Is it in active development or it has been dropped?
> Or you know a case-insensitive filesystem for linux with journaling?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Olaf

Really, I cant see a good reason for porting Microsoft
"case insensitive filenames bug" into a really good
filesystem.
Have you any other reason for such a change ?

Olaf, could I suggest you something:

dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/MyISOImages/image01.img
losetup /dev/loop0 /MyISOImages/image01.img
mkdir /mnt/myarch01
mount /dev/loop0 /mnt/myarch01

Another way is to copy files to a xfs, rename all
files and directories to a smallcase letters.

Then write a module with "hook" for the open()
call. This call should work in two steps:
call open.original without case change, if success return
if failed again call open() with case changed to small.
Should be quick and simple and most important
doesent require change in a big well tuned code.

Regards,
Blizbor