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Message-ID: <20111103134056.178ee9e3@barsoom.rdu.redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 13:40:56 -0400
From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
To: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@....ac.uk>
Cc: Steve French <sfrench@...ba.org>, linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org,
samba-technical@...ts.samba.org,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Unix Support <unix-support@....cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: CIFS: Rename bug on servers not supporting inode numbers
On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 15:42:13 +0000
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@....ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I should add that we are using iocharset=utf8 mount option which means that the dcache hash/compare functions done in the cifs module do not work because it uses nls_tolower() and nls_strnicmp() both of which for utf8 NLS in the kernel do not do anything at all and effectively behave case sensitively!
>
> Thus this bug/problem in all likelyhood only affects utf8 iocharset users on a case-insensitive but case-preserving CIFS server that does not support server inode numbers.
>
> That probably explains why it has not been noticed before!
>
> We need utf8 thus we still need to fix this issue.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Anton
>
I'm confused...
If the filesystem being served out by the server is using utf8, then
how is it handling the case-insensitivity?
--
Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
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