[Samba] Windows 2K outperform Linux/Samba very much?

[Mark Cooke]

On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 11:16, Mark Lidstone wrote:
> Here's a thought - If ACLs/journalling aren't needed, how well does
> Samba work on FAT/VFAT partitions?  Could the sheer simplicity of the
> filesystem help there?


You can use the configuration options to force filenames to a particular
case, and then bypass the slow case-insensitive matching by forcing case
sensitivity:

   mangle case = yes
   case sensitive = yes
   default case = lower
   preserve case = no
   short preserve case = no


However, on sharing a VFAT filesystem, perhaps you can preserve case,
and gain the speed increase by just setting 'case sensitive=yes'.

Mark

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Mark Cooke <mpc at star.sr.bham.ac.uk>
University Of Birmingham