From b6a515aca45b5efb8f8992767692dd3c08ef1d64 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Tridgell Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 06:34:13 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] r4246: some very brief notes to myself on solving the case insensitivity problem, and the del *.* mangling problem. I promised jra that I would write a longer description of these soon. (This used to be commit b6827a03e77fd1db4cbd16d7b7fb4328ccfe7a46) --- prog_guide.txt | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/prog_guide.txt b/prog_guide.txt index 8ab96fb1012..05d1bc61403 100644 --- a/prog_guide.txt +++ b/prog_guide.txt @@ -764,3 +764,18 @@ BUGS: trans2 and other calls handle servers that don't have the setattre call in torture add max file coponent length test and max path len test + +case-insenstive idea: + all filenames on disk lowercase + real case in extended attribute + keep cache of what dirs are all lowercase + when searching for name, don't search if dir is definately all lowercase + when creating file, use dnotify to tell if someone else creates at + same time + +solve del *.* idea: + make mangle cache dynamic size + fill during a dir scan + setup a timer + destroy cache after 30 sec + destroy if a 2nd dir scan happens on same dir -- 2.34.1