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From: "Hua Zhong" <hzhong@cisco.com>
To: <tridge@samba.org>, "'Pascal Schmidt'" <der.eremit@email.de>
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Subject: RE: UTF-8 and case-insensitivity
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 17:08:10 -0800
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> The problem is that Samba isn't the only program to be accessing these
> directories. Multi-protocol file servers and file servers where users
> also have local access are common. That means we can't assume that
> some other filesystem user hasn't created a file which matches in a
> case-insensitive manner. That means we need to do an awful lot of
> directory scans.

Do you also require NFSD or other file daemons to do the same
case-insensitivity check? Say you create a foo, how do you prevent NFSD
from creating FOO? What could you do about that?