samba - Aug 2004 - Issues using samba 3 with linux & IBM JFS case-insensitive FS?

Hi,

I'm wondering what issues / problems I might run into if I'm using samba
3 on linux with the IBM JFS filesystem installed to be case-insensitive. 
I've had no luck finding anyone who says they've tried it.

I'm having trouble with a group of Windows based developers programming 
in Delphi (Pascal) and Foxpro who seem to have real problems keeping the 
case of filenames consistent between development and production systems. 
This is ok until some clever type unzips updates from a shell prompt in 
Linux. Unfortunately I don't have the authority to kill them so I'm 
looking for an alternative where this behaviour doesn't matter.

One minor issue with JFS is it's difficult to change the name of files 
where only a change of case is wanted e.g. directly changing frood to 
Frood doesn't work, and copying frood over Frood in another directory 
works but the original name (Frood) remains.

Thanks,

Bradley.

Hi,
I've used JFS (with and without samba) and run into problems with national 
characters, I could create files with foreign characters, but it wasn't 
possible to access these files. I've switched the filesystem to XFS and no 
problems anymore.

This isn't the same problem as you have, but maybe these problems have the 
same reason.

regards
odi
Am Donnerstag, 5. August 2004 14:46 schrieb Bradley
Tate:
> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering what issues / problems I might run into if I'm using
samba
> 3 on linux with the IBM JFS filesystem installed to be case-insensitive.
> I've had no luck finding anyone who says they've tried it.
>
> I'm having trouble with a group of Windows based developers programming
> in Delphi (Pascal) and Foxpro who seem to have real problems keeping the
> case of filenames consistent between development and production systems.
> This is ok until some clever type unzips updates from a shell prompt in
> Linux. Unfortunately I don't have the authority to kill them so I'm
> looking for an alternative where this behaviour doesn't matter.
>
> One minor issue with JFS is it's difficult to change the name of files
> where only a change of case is wanted e.g. directly changing frood to
> Frood doesn't work, and copying frood over Frood in another directory
> works but the original name (Frood) remains.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bradley.

On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 10:46:37PM +1000, Bradley Tate
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm wondering what issues / problems I might run into if I'm using
samba
> 3 on linux with the IBM JFS filesystem installed to be case-insensitive. 
> I've had no luck finding anyone who says they've tried it.
It should be really fast :-). Just set case sensitive = yes in the [global]
section and let the filesystem sort it out :-).

Jeremy.