On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 09:56:05AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > My take on this is: > > - I think we'll have to prevent non-utf8 file names for any cases where > we use utf8 normalization. If you do not use utf8 normalization > it's plain old Unix everything is allowed. > > - I think utf8 normalization vs not should be mkfs option, to make sure > everyone including kernel and repair knows what sort of filesystem > deal with. > > - case insensitive matching for utf8 normalized filesystems should be > a runtime decision. mount time for now, but Samba people would be > extremly happy to allow per-operation or per-process CI matching. > But that is another totally different discusion I'd like to keep > separate, I just want to make sure the disk format allows for it for > now. Actually, I'm so eager for case-insensitive matching I'd take "at format time", as with ZFS :-) :-). Having CI matching can speed up Samba operations by a factor of 10 on large directories (warning, number made up, depending on the number of entries per dir :-). 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
