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Re-mount Through Caseless VFS?Re-mount Through Caseless VFS?Posted Feb 23, 2004 0:37 UTC (Mon) by miallen (guest, #10195)In reply to: The kernel and character set encodings by fiberbit Parent article: The kernel and character set encodings Why not just create a "casefs" VFS that just uses the existing ops for the target mounted fs but overloads lookup() to do the caseless pathwalk (and maybe save the last N paths with hashes in a separate cache)? Now you would just (re)mount an existing fs through this casefs VFS. It wouldn't be optimal but it would still be a lot faster for Samba, WINE, or whoever and it wouldn't barf all over any other kernel code. It's probably not a lot of code either. Mike
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Re-mount Through Caseless VFS? Posted Feb 23, 2004 7:40 UTC (Mon) by massimiliano (subscriber, #3048) [Link] I am definitely not a kernel developer, but this sounds like the perfect solution: very general, and perfectly decoupled from the code of existing filesystems... and moreover, you pay the performance penalty only if you use the feature. As an added benefit, it could be implemented entirely in user With such a layer, it would also be possible to handle all those Just my two cents, anyway.
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