Re: UTF-8 and case-insensitivity

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > For example, the rule can be that _any_ regular dentry create will 
> > invalidate all the "case-insensitive" dentries. Just to be simple about 
> > it.
> 
> If that's the rule, then with exactly the same algorithmic efficiency,
> readdir+dnotify can be used to maintain the cache in userspace
> instead.  There is nothing gained by using the helper module in that case.

Wrong.

Because the dnotify would trigger EVEN FOR SAMBA OPERATIONS.

Think about it. Think about samba doing a "rename()" within the directory.

		Linus
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