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New Patch Series Allows OverlayFS To Work With Casefolding


Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet posted ap atch series today enabling use of the OverlayFS file-system in cojunction with an underlying file-system supporting case-folding for case insensitive files/folders/

Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet posted ap atch series today enabling use of the OverlayFS file-system in cojunction with an underlying file-system supporting case-folding for case insensitive files/folders/ With this patch series to support case-folded file-systems, it's wired up through for Bcachefs for its case insensitive support. Currently, overlayfs can't be used _at all_ if a filesystem even supports casefolding, which is really nasty for users. The OverlayFS union mount file-system is commonly used for live Linux images, IoT/embedded devices, and similar purposes.

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