Richard Sharpe wrote: > > Hi, > > The current situation with respect to preserve case = yes and case > sensitive = no causes many problems. > > I recently ran a build of a lot of software under Windows that was mounted > on a file server, and lots of really silly things happen. This software > goes looking for include files in a list of directories, and every request > to open a file that does not exist in a particular include directory, or > one that is not the case that was first presented, causes Samba to do a > readdir scan of the directory that the name was contained in. This can > cause thousands to millions of scans :-( > > An altrnative might be to convert all names to the default case (preserve > case = No) and then do case sensitive matches (case sensitive = yes). > > What is the down-side to this?
That files might not be created by samba, and might therefore not be in the 'default' case. You need a real case-insensitive filesystem. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student Network Administrator, Hawker College [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net
