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   Lars Poulsen to All   
   CaseFolded file systems   
   07 Feb 26 13:43:50   
   
   From: lars@beagle-ears.com   
      
   As my system rebuild progresses, I have made some interesting   
   discoveries.   
      
   1) Although I did not find it anywhere in the documentation   
      I looked through, the "Fold" attribute is self propagating.   
      It would have been very difficult to work with if it hadn't,   
      but I worried, until one of you guys assured me this was   
      the case. So I just needed to set it in the root directory.   
      As the documentation say, the directory must be empty for   
      the "chattr" command to do its magic; to my surprise, that   
      means you must delete the "lost+found" directory created by   
      "mkfs.ext4" command first.   
   2) As I understand it, "fsck" depends on "lost+found" having a   
      specific inode number, that means you cannot just get it back   
      by a simple "mkdir" - that functiionality is lost forever   
      in a casefolded ext4.   
      Given the above, I am puzzled why "mkfs.ext4" did not implement   
      an option to set the bit in the root directory when you create   
      a fold-enabled volume.   
      
   --   
   Lars Poulsen - an old geek in Santa Barbara, California   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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