From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:26:19 -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 m33NQA9O021312 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 2008 16:26:11 -0700 Received: from sandeen.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 56EB190A5FB for ; Thu, 3 Apr 2008 11:11:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sandeen.net (sandeen.net [209.173.210.139]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id d5jD2g562W7ZAuU9 for ; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:11:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <47F51DDE.8070501@sandeen.net> Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:11:42 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] XFS: Unicode case-insensitive lookup implementation References: <20080402062508.017738664@chook.melbourne.sgi.com> <20080402062709.011126702@chook.melbourne.sgi.com> <20080403171450.GB22385@infradead.org> <20080403172400.GC22812@samba1> In-Reply-To: <20080403172400.GC22812@samba1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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.... Jeremy, what would be a representative test setup to use? Thanks, -Eric