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

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:16:49PM +0100, Mark Cooke wrote:
> 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'.

I was thinking of adding an option to allow this on a wildcard match
of a directory name, ie. forcing case-sensitivity and not preserving
case on a directory, rather than a per-share basis. This would fix
the problem for those people who just *have* to have 1,000,000,000,000,000,000
files in a directory :-) :-).

Jeremy.