On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 15:42:13 +0000 Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I should add that we are using iocharset=utf8 mount option which means that the dcache hash/compare functions done in the cifs module do not work because it uses nls_tolower() and nls_strnicmp() both of which for utf8 NLS in the kernel do not do anything at all and effectively behave case sensitively! > > Thus this bug/problem in all likelyhood only affects utf8 iocharset users on a case-insensitive but case-preserving CIFS server that does not support server inode numbers. > > That probably explains why it has not been noticed before! > > We need utf8 thus we still need to fix this issue. > > Best regards, > > Anton > I'm confused... If the filesystem being served out by the server is using utf8, then how is it handling the case-insensitivity? -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
