From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Goodwin Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] XFS: Unicode case-insensitive lookup implementation Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:00:30 +1100 Message-ID: <47F56F9E.4080200@sgi.com> References: <20080402062508.017738664@chook.melbourne.sgi.com> <20080402062709.011126702@chook.melbourne.sgi.com> <20080403171450.GB22385@infradead.org> <20080403172400.GC22812@samba1> <47F51DDE.8070501@sandeen.net> Reply-To: markgw@sgi.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jeremy Allison , Christoph Hellwig , Barry Naujok , xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Eric Sandeen Return-path: Received: from relay2.sgi.com ([192.48.171.30]:35387 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750770AbYDDAAq (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Apr 2008 20:00:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: <47F51DDE.8070501@sandeen.net> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Eric Sandeen wrote: > 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. > > I'd like to see the numbers... Simo tested an earlier version of this > patch, and it was not faster.... Yes I'd like to see some numbers too. Simo, can you post details of your testing (framework, methodology, results, etc). > > Jeremy, what would be a representative test setup to use? Cheers -- Mark -- Mark Goodwin markgw@sgi.com Engineering Manager for XFS and PCP Phone: +61-3-99631937 SGI Australian Software Group Cell: +61-4-18969583 -------------------------------------------------------------