From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267214AbUBSMM4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2004 07:12:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267215AbUBSMM4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2004 07:12:56 -0500 Received: from [195.23.16.24] ([195.23.16.24]:58003 "EHLO bipbip.comserver-pie.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267214AbUBSMMz (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2004 07:12:55 -0500 Message-ID: <4034A7F4.6000402@grupopie.com> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 12:11:32 +0000 From: Paulo Marques Organization: GrupoPIE User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020508 Netscape6/6.2.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tridge@samba.org Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" , Pascal Schmidt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: UTF-8 and case-insensitivity References: <1qqzv-2tr-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <1qqJc-2A2-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <1qHAR-2Wm-49@gated-at.bofh.it> <1qIwr-5GB-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <1qIwr-5GB-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <1qIQ1-5WR-27@gated-at.bofh.it> <1qIZt-6b9-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <1qJsF-6Be-45@gated-at.bofh.it> <16436.2817.900018.285167@samba.org> <20040219024426.GA3901@thunk.org> <16436.11148.231014.822067@samba.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org tridge@samba.org wrote: > Currently dnotify doesn't give you the filename that is being > added/deleted/renamed. It just tells you that something has happened, > but not enough to actually maintain a name cache in user space. This might be a crazy / stupid idea, so flame at will :) Wouldn't it be possible to do a samba "super-server" mode, in which samba would assume that it controlled the directories it is exporting? In this mode a "corporate" Samba server, serving Windows clients, could improve performance by assuming that its cache was always up-to-date. If if we wanted to access the directory locally we could always mount locally using samba, and access the files anyway, albeit a lot slower and without linux permissions, etc. What we would gain was the ability to say "I want to give priority to my samba server" (and set it to "super-server" mode) or "my priority is to the linux native filesystem, and just want to share my files with windows users anyway" (and keep using samba as always). -- Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com "In a world without walls and fences who needs windows and gates?"