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

[Mark Goodwin <markgw@xxxxxxx>]

Eric Sandeen wrote:
> 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.
> I'd like to see the numbers... Simo tested an earlier version of this
> patch, and it was not faster.... 
Yes I'd like to see some numbers too. Simo, can you post details of your
testing (framework, methodology, results, etc).

> Jeremy, what would be a representative test setup to use?
Cheers
-- Mark

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