From: "Bones" <bones10@msn.com>
To: <linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: RE: Mixed case support in XFS
Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 22:33:05 -0600
Message-ID: <JHEILHKOJAMNODABOOOACEGDCKAA.bones10@msn.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
In-Reply-To: <20030523190913.GH16618@puariko.nirvana>
Importance: Normal
Sender: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com
Errors-to: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com
Precedence: bulk
Content-Length: 960
Lines: 31

The option to skip case conversion is smaba is not quite ready yet - AFAIK.

But, yes, skipping the case conversion code would give you 15-20%

- bones


-----Original Message-----
From: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com
[mailto:linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com]On Behalf Of Axel Thimm
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 1:09 PM
To: Bones
Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Mixed case support in XFS


On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 11:31:30AM -0600, Bones wrote:
> Samba already does handle the conversion to case insensitivity. However,
it
> is not a very fast solution. The idea of having case insensitivity in XFS
is
> to bypass that complexity in samba and let XFS handle it. The current
> thinking of the samba team is that this will improve samba performance as
> much as 15-20%.

Quite OT, but what do I have to sacrifice today to get those 15-20%
speedup (seems too good to be true)? Simply drop case conversion in
Samba? Any pointers?
--
Axel.Thimm@physik.fu-berlin.de