cm0002@lemmy.world to Linux · 1 month agoLinus Torvalds Expresses His Hatred For Case-Insensitive File-Systemswww.phoronix.comexternal-linkmessage-square114linkfedilinkarrow-up1290arrow-down17cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1283arrow-down1external-linkLinus Torvalds Expresses His Hatred For Case-Insensitive File-Systemswww.phoronix.comcm0002@lemmy.world to Linux · 1 month agomessage-square114linkfedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squaresoclinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-21 month agoThat –at best– gives you the same performance. EDIT: Ok, I misunderstood – you meant the performance of “case insensitive in kernel” vs. “case insensitive in userspace”. I get your point now.
minus-squareFooBarrington@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 month agoNo? Either the application implements its own case-insensitive index, or you’ll have strictly worse performance than an implementation in the file system. The application would have to make multiple syscalls (which have a fixed overhead).
That –at best– gives you the same performance.
EDIT: Ok, I misunderstood – you meant the performance of “case insensitive in kernel” vs. “case insensitive in userspace”. I get your point now.
No? Either the application implements its own case-insensitive index, or you’ll have strictly worse performance than an implementation in the file system. The application would have to make multiple syscalls (which have a fixed overhead).