Case-insensitive ext4

Posted Mar 27, 2019 21:26 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Case-insensitive ext4 by rweikusat2
Parent article: Case-insensitive ext4

Samba exists, but it does case insensitivity in a very expensive way. There are other use-cases as well, like mounting FAT filesystems.

I've seen this firsthand - I'm using a Linux server for TimeMachine backups for Mac OS X. TimeMachine is braindead - it creates hundreds of thousands files in the same directory. With the default settings Samba slowed down to a crawl.

Fortunately, TimeMachine doesn't care about file name cases. So by following steps from here: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Performance_Tuning I was able to speed up backups by something like 10x. This is not insignificant and it would be nice for Linux to handle similar use-cases natively.