From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267624AbUBTBMf (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:12:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267663AbUBTBL4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:11:56 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:26634 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267602AbUBTBIT (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:08:19 -0500 Message-ID: <40355DDD.6010305@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:07:41 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Zytor Communications User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031030 X-Accept-Language: en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Andrew Tridgell , Al Viro , Jamie Lokier , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Eureka! (was Re: UTF-8 and case-insensitivity) References: <16435.60448.70856.791580@samba.org> <16435.61622.732939.135127@samba.org> <20040219081027.GB4113@mail.shareable.org> <20040219163838.GC2308@mail.shareable.org> <20040219182948.GA3414@mail.shareable.org> <16437.18605.71269.750607@samba.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > > The only way to avoid that is to make the hash weaker. Which I'm not > willing to do: I'm not willing to make the _proper_ lookups go slower > because of some insane crap generated by Microsoft. > Or, to be fair, have a secondary set of hash entries (effectively a parallel dcache, which would optimize on normalized names instead of true names.) A multi-dcache approach seems scary as hell, though... -hpa