Christian Schoenebeck wrote on Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 08:02:46PM +0200: > So maybe it's better to handle case-insensitivity entirely on client side? > I've read that some generic "case fold" code has landed in the Linux kernel > recently that might do the trick?
I haven't tried, but settings S_CASEFOLD on every inodes i_flags might do what you want client-side. That's easy enough to test and could be a mount option Even with that it's possible to do a direct open without readdir first if one knows the path and I that would only be case-insensitive if the backing server is case insensitive though, so just setting the option and expecting it to work all the time might be a little bit optimistic... I believe guess that should be an optimization at best. Ideally the server should tell the client they are casefolded somehow, but 9p doesn't have any capability/mount time negotiation besides msize so that's difficult with the current protocol. -- Dominique | Asmadeus
