[Samba] Using ZFS Case insensitive filesystems with Samba

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Tue Feb 25 14:13:43 MST 2014


On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:
> 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/
>

Shouldn't it be

case sensitive = false

BTW, I was testing with this on zfsonllinux 2 weeks ago.

John


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