xattr performance and Samba4

James Peach jpeach at sgi.com
Wed Nov 24 22:40:44 GMT 2004


On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 10:04:37AM +0100, Olaf Fr±czyk wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 23:50, James Peach wrote:
> > XFS also has a case insensitivity option. I haven't been able to
> > demonstrate that it's a big performance win in Samba3, but I'm happy to
> > be corrected :)
> People at linux-xfs at oss.sgi.com have different opinion (about being able
> to have case insensitive filesystem) - at least they had last year.
> Where have you found an option to make filesystem case-insensitive?

It's a mkfs_xfs option on IRIX.

> Maybe it has been not ported to linux?

Nope.

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