Re: [PATCH 5/7] XFS: Unicode case-insensitive lookup implementation

[Jeremy Allison <jra@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.