[Samba] Samba on ZFS

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 02:33:45PM -0600, Patrick Goetz via samba wrote:
>
>I'm curious about why there are performance benefits to ignoring case, 
>but I suppose it's because file inquiries involve case mapping to 
>accommodate Windows machines. In the age of Unicode, ignoring case is 
>an awful, awful idea, but Microsoft is now stuck with this legacy 
>implementation and I don't see how they'll ever escape it.  Maybe once 
>Windows is rebased on a linux kernel...

The reason it is a performance win is in the lookup of an unknown
file case. If a client requests to open "Filename", and a stat()
of "Filename" fails, then smbd has to open and scan the directory
looking for any file named "filename" as a case-insensitive match.

For a large directory that can be very time-intensive.

MacOSX is also case-insensitive I believe :-(.