Re: xfs getting case-insensitive filesystem support...
Joerg Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 08:39:40PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: Hrm. This is interesting: http://lwn.net/Articles/278961/ I wonder if Wine could run faster if it could delegate the case-insensitvity to the filesystem... Would be nice indeed, but I don't think it will come: Linus shot down similar patches in the past because to_lower may be easy to implement for ascii, but once you want to implement it for all charsets supported by the files system it gets very messy. Sure, it's messy until the filesystem is unicode internally, and uses something more reasonable instead of a multibyte UTF-8. -- Dmitry.
Re: xfs getting case-insensitive filesystem support...
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 03:05:51PM +0900, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote: Joerg Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 08:39:40PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: Hrm. This is interesting: http://lwn.net/Articles/278961/ I wonder if Wine could run faster if it could delegate the case-insensitvity to the filesystem... Would be nice indeed, but I don't think it will come: Linus shot down similar patches in the past because to_lower may be easy to implement for ascii, but once you want to implement it for all charsets supported by the files system it gets very messy. Sure, it's messy until the filesystem is unicode internally, and uses something more reasonable instead of a multibyte UTF-8. Unix filesystems treat filenames as byte-strings, this is 100% reasonable :-) Any conversion to glygps isn't a filesyatem operation. David -- David Laight: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xfs getting case-insensitive filesystem support...
Hrm. This is interesting: http://lwn.net/Articles/278961/ I wonder if Wine could run faster if it could delegate the case-insensitvity to the filesystem...
Re: xfs getting case-insensitive filesystem support...
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 08:39:40PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: Hrm. This is interesting: http://lwn.net/Articles/278961/ I wonder if Wine could run faster if it could delegate the case-insensitvity to the filesystem... Would be nice indeed, but I don't think it will come: Linus shot down similar patches in the past because to_lower may be easy to implement for ascii, but once you want to implement it for all charsets supported by the files system it gets very messy. Ciao Joerg -- Joerg Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology.
