Using ZFS Case insensitive filesystems with Samba
Jeremy Allison
jra at samba.org
Tue Feb 25 14:08:18 MST 2014
Here's something I learned when working with the FreeNAS folks :
ZFS can be configured to be case insensitive when
you create the filesystem (NOTE - cannot be altered
*after* the filesystem is created).
zfs create -o casesensitivity=insensitive filesystem
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=zfs&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE&format=html
Once you've done this set the following in the
share definition in your smb.conf :
[ZFSSHARE]
path = /foo
case sensitive = true
and Samba will go *much* faster for
directories with large numbers of files
(we don't have to scan the directory on
every cache miss) !
This should also work with ZFS on Linux:
https://zfsonlinux.org/
Jeremy.
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