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Re: Tomorrow

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Subject: Re: Tomorrow
From: Ethan Benson <erbenson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 18:55:45 -0800
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On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 09:45:03PM -0500, Steve Lord wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-05-24 at 17:35, Ethan Benson wrote:
> 
> > 
> > never said to.  said to keep that support in userspace where it
> > currently is, and currently belongs.
> > 
> 
> Unfortunately some folks get upset about performance of having
> to do a readdir each time you look up a name. Since this is really
> the only way user space can do it.

well price you pay for using crud like windows..

anyway they should just use a broken case insensitive filesystem like
NTFS, or HFS+ for the smb export, rather then insist we cripple (or
cruftify) decent filesystems like XFS.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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