re: How to make filenames case insensitive

[Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>]

On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 09:34, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> If XFS doesn't have a native way, you could export them via samba, then mount them to an alternate mount point with smbmount.
> 
> 
>  >>  Hi,
> 
>  >>  I have many CDs copied onto disk.
>  >>  They contain documentation in PDF files.
>  >>  The files are linked each other.
>  >>  But I'm unable to use them because they were created in Windows, and
>  >>  they have filenames in wrong case eg:
>  >>  I have file XXX and YYY
>  >>  I open XXX, and I have a link Yyy, so acrobat reader fails to open it.
>  >>  I can use these CDs when mounted with option check=relaxed, but XFS
>  >>  doesn't have this option.
>  >>  What can I do to get it working?
> 

XFS does not have a native way, there has been someone working on a
case insensitive XFS, but that involved changing the hash algorithm
XFS uses internally and on the disk, so it would not help here.

Steve

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