At 7:19 PM -0700 7/4/02, 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?
Sometimes one want to simultaneously export a filesystem as both NFS and CIFS (and AppleShare, in my environment). Samba must preserve case so the other protocols can behave reasonably, yes? -- Conrad Minshall, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 408 974-2749 Apple Computer, Mac OS X Core Operating Systems
