That's very cool that you can do that on a per directory basis! Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, Hamilton, NZ Mobile +64 22 190 2375 https://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/ 6/02/2024 13:48:56 Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo(a)geek-central.gen.nz>:
On Thu, 26 Aug 2021 18:33:04 +1200, I wrote:
The ext4 filesystem has had the “casefold” option for a while now <https://lwn.net/Articles/784041/>.
I was able to create such a filesystem, but I wasn’t able to mount it in my last-upgraded-just-a-few-days-ago Debian Unstable setup.
I just tried it again today. I created the filesystem with
mkfs -t ext4 -E encoding=utf8 «block-device»
then mounted it as normal. There is initially no difference in behaviour from any other ext4 volume. The casefold feature needs to be enabled on a per-directory basis within that filesystem:
chattr +F «dirname»
(the directory must be empty at the time the attribute is changed). And now you will see that, while case is preserved on initial creation of items within that directory, those item names will match case-insensitively.
Also the +F attribute automatically propagates to any subdirectories created within that directory. You can display its setting on any directory with the “lsattr” command. _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list -- wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz | To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: https://list.waikato.ac.nz/postorius/lists/wlug.list.waikato.ac.nz