Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423130AbbENXhE (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 May 2015 19:37:04 -0400 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:53317 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423104AbbENXhA (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 May 2015 19:37:00 -0400 Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 00:36:32 +0100 From: Al Viro To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Jeremy Allison , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-fsdevel , Christoph Hellwig , Neil Brown Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCHSET v3] non-recursive pathname resolution & RCU symlinks Message-ID: <20150514233632.GG7232@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <20150505052205.GS889@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20150511180650.GA4147@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20150513222533.GA24192@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20150514033040.GF7232@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20150514220932.GC31808@samba2> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 662 Lines: 15 On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 04:24:13PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So ASCII-only case-insensitivity is sufficient for you guys? > > Doing case-insensitive lookups at a vfs layer level wouldn't be > impossible (add some new lookup flag, so it would *not* be > per-filesystem, it would be per-operation!), ENOPARSE. Either two names are equivalent or they are not; it's not a per-operation thing. What do you mean? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/