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Date:   Fri, 7 Jun 2019 09:32:55 -0400
From:   "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc:     Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com>,
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        "Lakshmipathi.G" <lakshmipathi.ganapathi@collabora.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] ext4/036: Add tests for filename casefolding
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On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 10:23:31PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 03:31:38PM -0400, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
> > 
> > For now, let it live in ext4 and we move to shared/ or generic/ when
> > other filesystems supporting this feature start to pop up.
> 
> Please keep it in shared/ from the start.  There isn't really anything
> ext4 specific.  In fact xfs already supports CI file systems, just
> without utf8 tables for now.

Agreed; the only things which are fs specific are things which you've
already done a great job abstracting away in common/casefold.

      	  	      	       	       - Ted