Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Feb 2004 14:28:49 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: UTF-8 and case-insensitivity |
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On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > That's not my problem. That is _your_ problem, and I don't care. I > disagree violently with the notion that we would push this down to a > filesystem level. > > Sorry, but there are limits to how much we care about broken operating > systems.
Side note: this only matters for cold cache entries anyway, so I doubt you'll see any performance improvement on a file server from passing the brain damage down to the lower levels.
And I bet the performance advantages of _not_ doing native case insensitivity are likely to dominate hugely.
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