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. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html