From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Allison Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] XFS: Unicode case-insensitive lookup implementation Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 11:47:39 -0700 Message-ID: <20080403184739.GB6100@samba1> References: <20080402062508.017738664@chook.melbourne.sgi.com> <20080402062709.011126702@chook.melbourne.sgi.com> <20080403171450.GB22385@infradead.org> <20080403172400.GC22812@samba1> <20080403184333.GA30595@infradead.org> Reply-To: Jeremy Allison Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jeremy Allison , Barry Naujok , xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig Return-path: Received: from mail.samba.org ([66.70.73.150]:49032 "EHLO lists.samba.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751176AbYDCSrl (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Apr 2008 14:47:41 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080403184333.GA30595@infradead.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 02:43:33PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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. Sorry, then I'm not understanding your objection to this patch (and I don't think I understood that sentence :-). Jeremy.