Re: [RFC PATCH] 9p: case-insensitive host filesystems

2022-05-23 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
On Freitag, 22. April 2022 21:57:40 CEST Dominique Martinet wrote: > 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 > > kern

Re: [RFC PATCH] 9p: case-insensitive host filesystems

2022-04-22 Thread Dominique Martinet
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_CAS

[RFC PATCH] 9p: case-insensitive host filesystems

2022-04-22 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
Now that 9p support for macOS hosts just landed in QEMU 7.0 and with support for Windows hosts on the horizon [1], the question is how to deal with case- insensitive host filesystems, which are very common on those two systems? I made some tests, e.g. trying to setup a 9p root fs Linux installati