On Sunday 05 April 2009 13:59:58 James Harper wrote: > > James Harper wrote: > > > The docs > > http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/install/install/Configuring_Director.ht > > > > ml#SECTION00870000000000000000 state of windows filesets: > > > > > > " > > > In addition, on Windows machines, you should always prefix the > > directory > > > > or filename with the drive specification in lower case (e.g. c:/xxx) > > > using Unix directory name separators (forward slash). > > > " > > > > > > But then under "A Windows Example FileSet", upper case drive letters > > are > > > > used everywhere > > > > I believe using upper or lower case gives the same results. > > > > I wonder if there is merit is using one or the other. > > > > The OP's point is: The documentation says to use lower case, but our > > examples use upper case. > > > > Is there any reason we mention lower case? > > D'oh. I forgot to reference the post from -users. Look for a post from > "Mike Ruskai" with a subject of "Paths for Windows file daemons". The > contents here: > > " > Exclude = "E:/path/directory" = ignored > Exclude = "e:/path/directory" = respected > > I have never been a fan of case-sensitive file systems. There's no good > > reason to have them, and plenty of good reasons to not have them. > > But the fact is, Windows is case-preservative, not case-sensitive. > > Shouldn't Bacula, since it wants to support Windows, be able to function > > without case-sensitivity? > > Ignoring that, at least the documentation should be updated to use > lower-case drive letters, since upper-case ones don't work. > "
If I am not mistaken, all the above problems are handled by "Ignore Case = yes" in the FileSet, and I think (it is hard to remember all this stuff) Ignore Case is now (in 3.0.0) default on Win32 systems (actually, I think it is forced). In any case, if someone could test all this against 3.0.0 (now in the SVN) and make a doc patch or send me the details of the doc changes to be made, I would be happy to update it before the release (in a couple of days). If someone needs the very latest win32 or win64 binaries for testing, let me know and I will post them ... Regards, Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
