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 -- 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
