On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 02:43:33PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 10:24:00AM -0700, 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. > > CI filenames can work perfectly fine without adding validation of file > names by treating non-conformant bytestreams as not having lower/upper > case variants. Sorry, then I'm not understanding your objection to this patch (and I don't think I understood that sentence :-). 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
