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[Jeremy Allison]

Michael Glauche wrote:
> 
> --On Montag, 6. November 2000 11:29 -0800 Jeremy Allison
> <jeremy at valinux.com> wrote:
> > Yes indeed - just set "case sensitive = no" - then all
> > the statcache and much of this code is bypassed. I'd
> > be very interested in a NetBench run with these two
> > options on and off, on a VMS box as this would give us
> > a relative comparison on how this extra processing
> > affects us.
> 
> I did some quick tests with 2.0.7 on an old x86 box:
> 
> A directory with 5300 files, mostly jpegs, opening one jpeg with acdsee
> (which does a dirlist ...)
> with case sensitive = no it takes about 10 sec.
> with case sensitive = yes it takes about 4-5 sec.

So Andrew's intuition is correct (what a suprise - I've
rarely known him to be wrong :-) :-).

A case insensitive kernel based stat/open is the way to go.

Jeremy.

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