Re: [GSoC][RFC] Case Insensitive Filesystem

2008-04-26 Thread Marc Andre Tanner
Hi, Just wanted to let you know that i have finally found the time to set up a little page for ciopfs: http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/ciopfs/ There are certainly a few things which could be improved but it in my tests it worked quite well in it's current form. As it seems that the idea

Re: [GSoC][RFC] Case Insensitive Filesystem

2008-03-27 Thread Marc Andre Tanner
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 04:17:57PM -0700, Scott Ritchie wrote: Alexandre Julliard wrote: Marc Andre Tanner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes that's true the case information is lost but is it really needed? If you create the files with the original mixed case you will have to scan the

Re: [GSoC][RFC] Case Insensitive Filesystem

2008-03-26 Thread Francois Gouget
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Marc Andre Tanner wrote: [...] The filesystem converts every path to lower case before further operations take place. On file creation the original filename is stored in an extended attribute and later returned upon request. Shouldn't it be the other way around? I guess

Re: [GSoC][RFC] Case Insensitive Filesystem

2008-03-26 Thread Marc Andre Tanner
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:49:16PM +0100, Francois Gouget wrote: On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Marc Andre Tanner wrote: [...] The filesystem converts every path to lower case before further operations take place. On file creation the original filename is stored in an extended attribute and later

Re: [GSoC][RFC] Case Insensitive Filesystem

2008-03-26 Thread Alexandre Julliard
Marc Andre Tanner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes that's true the case information is lost but is it really needed? If you create the files with the original mixed case you will have to scan the whole directory in order to match it to a given filename. And if i am not mistaken this is exactly

Re: [GSoC][RFC] Case Insensitive Filesystem

2008-03-26 Thread Marc Andre Tanner
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 06:10:16PM +0100, Alexandre Julliard wrote: Marc Andre Tanner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes that's true the case information is lost but is it really needed? If you create the files with the original mixed case you will have to scan the whole directory in order to

Re: [GSoC][RFC] Case Insensitive Filesystem

2008-03-26 Thread Scott Ritchie
Alexandre Julliard wrote: Marc Andre Tanner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes that's true the case information is lost but is it really needed? If you create the files with the original mixed case you will have to scan the whole directory in order to match it to a given filename. And if i am

Re: [GSoC][RFC] Case Insensitive Filesystem

2008-03-26 Thread Cesar Izurieta
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Scott Ritchie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexandre Julliard wrote: Marc Andre Tanner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes that's true the case information is lost but is it really needed? If you create the files with the original mixed case you will have to

Re: [GSoC][RFC] Case Insensitive Filesystem

2008-03-26 Thread Austin English
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Cesar Izurieta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexandre Julliard wrote: Yes, and that's precisely because Wine wants to preserve case, so that tools that look at the filesystem directly see the right thing. If you are going to store everything lowercase

Re: [GSoC][RFC] Case Insensitive Filesystem

2008-03-26 Thread Scott Ritchie
Austin English wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Cesar Izurieta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexandre Julliard wrote: Yes, and that's precisely because Wine wants to preserve case, so that tools that look at the filesystem directly see the right thing. If you are going to

[GSoC][RFC] Case Insensitive Filesystem

2008-03-25 Thread Marc Andre Tanner
Hi, During the last week i have been playing around with the idea of writing a case insensitive fuse filesystem and i am know at the point were i can demonstrate a proof of concept implementation. And yes i have seen that there is already someone else interested in doing this but i thought it