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From: Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] XFS: Unicode case-insensitive lookup implementation
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 10:24:00 -0700
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On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 01:14:50PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Validating file names is not the filesystem job.  In fact it's utterly
> stupid, a unix filename is a sequence of bytes without special meaning
> except for ., .., / and \0

This patch will be extremely useful for users who are serving
Windows clients using Samba. It allow admins to turn off the
userspace case insensitivity we have to emulate and be a significant
speed increase.

Jeremy.