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

["Josef 'Jeff' Sipek" <jeffpc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

IIRC, the last version of this patch series didn't help on the performance
scale.  Any updates as to whether that got fixed up?

Josef 'Jeff' Sipek.

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