On Fri, 2002-08-16 at 02:17, John E. Malmberg wrote: > Tim Potter wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 12:29:32AM -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: > > > > Can't we get rid of the case sensitive option?. It just seems to cause > > people lots of uncessary pain. > > Strangely enough, having "case_sensitive = yes", makes SAMBA more > responsive for case insensitive file systems.
Probably because with case sensitive = yes we avoid lot of code needed to handle case insensitivity. > It probably would be better to have SAMBA allow the VFS level to do the > file name matching, so that it can be taylored to the file system. Yes, I think we will go in that direction soon. > The OpenVMS file api that is eventually called by readdir() accepts a > wildcard mask. yes but probably accepted wildcards differs between NT and OpenVMS > So if a vfs_wild_reeaddir() existed, it would do the wildcard matching > and the wildcard file lookup could be optimized to the file system. yes of course, and there are also lot more advantages, like having a file system able to handle mangling directly. Simo. -- Simo Sorce - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Xsec s.r.l. via Durando 10 Ed. G - 20158 - Milano tel. +39 02 2399 7130 - fax: +39 02 700 442 399
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