On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 11:03:02AM -0500, Chuck Lever wrote:
> From: Chuck Lever <[email protected]>
> 
> Report ext4's case sensitivity behavior via the FS_XFLAG_CASEFOLD
> flag. ext4 always preserves case at rest.
> 
> Case sensitivity is a per-directory setting in ext4. If the queried
> inode is a casefolded directory, report case-insensitive; otherwise
> report case-sensitive (standard POSIX behavior).
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <[email protected]>
> ---
>  fs/ext4/ioctl.c | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
> index 7ce0fc40aec2..462da7aadc80 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
> @@ -996,6 +996,13 @@ int ext4_fileattr_get(struct dentry *dentry, struct 
> file_kattr *fa)
>       if (ext4_has_feature_project(inode->i_sb))
>               fa->fsx_projid = from_kprojid(&init_user_ns, ei->i_projid);
>  
> +     /*
> +      * Case folding is a directory attribute in ext4. Set FS_XFLAG_CASEFOLD
> +      * for directories with the casefold attribute; all other inodes use
> +      * standard case-sensitive semantics.
> +      */
> +     if (IS_CASEFOLDED(inode))
> +             fa->fsx_xflags |= FS_XFLAG_CASEFOLD;

Curious.  Shouldn't the VFS set FS_XFLAG_CASEFOLD if the VFS casefolding
flag is set?

OTOH, there are more filesystems that apparently support casefolding
(given the size of this patchset) than actually set S_CASEFOLD.  I think
I'm ignorant of something here...

--D

>       return 0;
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 2.52.0
> 
> 


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