From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:24:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.168.28]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m33HNuDV026370 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 2008 10:23:59 -0700 Received: from lists.samba.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 6F183903D78 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 2008 10:24:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lists.samba.org (mail.samba.org [66.70.73.150]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id Kjh5VNyWfNEAoyq7 for ; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:24:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 10:24:00 -0700 From: Jeremy Allison Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] XFS: Unicode case-insensitive lookup implementation Message-ID: <20080403172400.GC22812@samba1> Reply-To: Jeremy Allison References: <20080402062508.017738664@chook.melbourne.sgi.com> <20080402062709.011126702@chook.melbourne.sgi.com> <20080403171450.GB22385@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080403171450.GB22385@infradead.org> Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Barry Naujok , xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org 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.