From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:56:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.168.29]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m33NuEYR026730 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 2008 16:56:16 -0700 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id E95BF7397C9 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 2008 11:44:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [18.85.46.34]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id fiMpGFCBDhD3P44h for ; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:44:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 14:43:33 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] XFS: Unicode case-insensitive lookup implementation 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 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080403172400.GC22812@samba1> Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Jeremy Allison Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Barry Naujok , xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org 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.