Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 21 Feb 2004 10:15:53 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: explicit dcache <-> user-space cache coherency, sys_mark_dir_clean(), O_CLEAN |
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On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote: > > If we are demanding specific filesystems, we could simply say "use > JFS in case-insensitive mode" and be done with that. Which deals > with all problems, since fs code will guarantee uniqueness, etc.
Don't be silly. You can't use JFS in case-insensitive mode and do anything sane.
That will terminally confuse a lot of UNIX applications, including NFS serving. Which makes the whole thing completely useless _except_ as a pure Windows-compatible partition.
If you are going to limit a partition to _only_ doing Samba serving, then you have no problems _anyway_, since then samba can do all locking and all name translation totally on its own.
In short, a case-insensitive filesystem is fundamentally uninteresting. It buys _nothing_ that samba can't do already, since it only means that you can't really do anything else on it.
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