From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] XFS: Unicode case-insensitive lookup implementation Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 14:43:33 -0400 Message-ID: <20080403184333.GA30595@infradead.org> References: <20080402062508.017738664@chook.melbourne.sgi.com> <20080402062709.011126702@chook.melbourne.sgi.com> <20080403171450.GB22385@infradead.org> <20080403172400.GC22812@samba1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Barry Naujok , xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Jeremy Allison Return-path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:57877 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751061AbYDCSno (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Apr 2008 14:43:44 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080403172400.GC22812@samba1> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 10:24:00AM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote: > 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. CI filenames can work perfectly fine without adding validation of file names by treating non-conformant bytestreams as not having lower/upper case variants.