Re: mixed case file systems.

2002-04-20 Thread John E. Malmberg
OpenVMS has two main file systems, one is not case sensitive or case preserving, the other is by default not case sensitive but is case preserving. Files are generally sorted in a case blind fashion. How big of a problem is this going to be? -John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal Opinion Only --

Re: mixed case file systems.

2002-04-19 Thread Martin Pool
On 18 Apr 2002, David Bolen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A few caveats - both ends have to support the option - I couldn't make it backwards compatible because both ends exchange information about a sorted file list that has to sort the same way on either side (which very subtly bit me when I

RE: mixed case file systems.

2002-04-19 Thread David Bolen
Martin Pool [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] writes: On 18 Apr 2002, David Bolen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A few caveats - both ends have to support the option - I couldn't make it backwards compatible because both ends exchange information about a sorted file list that has to sort the same way on

RE: mixed case file systems.

2002-04-19 Thread Peter Tattam
Given the interoperability problems between versions and the risk of data loss, I think I will have to wait till this option is in the mainstream. My alternative workaround to to write a utility to rename all files on the errant file system to be all lower case. Thanks for the help anyway.

RE: mixed case file systems.

2002-04-19 Thread David Bolen
Peter Tattam [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] writes: Given the interoperability problems between versions and the risk of data loss, I think I will have to wait till this option is in the mainstream. My alternative workaround to to write a utility to rename all files on the errant file system to be all

RE: mixed case file systems.

2002-04-19 Thread Peter Tattam
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, David Bolen wrote: Peter Tattam [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] writes: Given the interoperability problems between versions and the risk of data loss, I think I will have to wait till this option is in the mainstream. My alternative workaround to to write a utility to

mixed case file systems.

2002-04-18 Thread Peter Tattam
I am having trouble with rsync when I am trying to synchronize a Windows NT volume mounted with smb_fs (FreeBSD) and a unix volume which is also exported with Samba. There are instances where the DOS short name on the NT volume ends up as upper case and then doesn't match filenames which are

RE: mixed case file systems.

2002-04-18 Thread David Bolen
Peter Tattam [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] writes: I believe a suitable workaround would be to ignore case for file names when the rsync process is undertaken. Is this facility available or planned in the near future? I've attached a context diff for some changes I made to our local copy a while back

RE: mixed case file systems.

2002-04-18 Thread Peter Tattam
I am using 2.4.6 on both ends (chosen by FreeBSD 4.4 ports collection), so I believe your patch should work. Thanks. Peter -- Peter R. Tattam[EMAIL PROTECTED] Managing Director,Trumpet Software International Pty Ltd Hobart, Australia, Ph. +61-3-6245-0220, Fax