We have an application that was build on a windows platform that expects
a case insensitive file system.
Is there a way to set one up in CentOS?
NTFS should work, I think, but I feel uneasy using that under Linux.


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FAT32 may work too if you don't need large files.

I just tried NTFS-3G on a thumbdrive, and I was able to create a file
that differed only by case from another. Then something got corrupted.


On Apr 29, 2008, at 6:50 PM, Ruslan Sivak wrote:

We have an application that was build on a windows platform that
expects a case insensitive file system. Is there a way to set one up
in CentOS? NTFS should work, I think, but I feel uneasy using that
under Linux.


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Ruslan Sivak wrote:
We have an application that was build on a windows platform that
expects a case insensitive file system. Is there a way to set one up
in CentOS? NTFS should work, I think, but I feel uneasy using that
under Linux.



NTFS is not whats case insensitive, its WINDOWS thats case insensitive.

you'll need to fix that application to either use all monocase names or
to be self-consistent enough to run properly on a case sensitive system.



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John R Pierce wrote:

Ruslan Sivak wrote:
We have an application that was build on a windows platform that
expects a case insensitive file system. Is there a way to set one up
in CentOS? NTFS should work, I think, but I feel uneasy using that
under Linux.



NTFS is not whats case insensitive, its WINDOWS thats case insensitive.

you'll need to fix that application to either use all monocase names
or to be self-consistent enough to run properly on a case sensitive
system.



I will look into fixing the application, but it may not be possible.
There must be a filesystem that I can use. Mac's have HFS+ which can be
case insensitive. Aren't Macs pretty much Linux? Isn't there a similar
filesystem availalbe for linux? I wouldn't run the whole system on it,
just the portion that hosts the app.


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On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Ruslan Sivak <russ@vshift.com> wrote:
Does the entire filesystem need to be case insensitive, or is this a
web based product, where you can do some apache rewrite-fu to make
this work instead?


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Jim Perrin wrote:

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Ruslan Sivak <russ@vshift.com> wrote:
Does the entire filesystem need to be case insensitive, or is this a
web based product, where you can do some apache rewrite-fu to make
this work instead?


It is a web based product, but I'm not sure rewriterules would help.
Lets say it's something like this


http://www.domain.com/index.php?action=foo

And inside index.php it does something like

<? include($_GET['page'].".php") ?>

This is a gross simplification, but it's my understanding that if the
file was named 'foo.php' and someone typed in


http://www.domain.com/index.php?action=Foo

It would still work on windows, but not on linux because of case
sensitivity.


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Ruslan Sivak wrote:
> Jim Perrin wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Ruslan Sivak <russ@vshift.com> wrote:
> > Does the entire filesystem need to be case insensitive, or is this a
> > web based product, where you can do some apache rewrite-fu to make
> > this work instead?
>
> It is a web based product, but I'm not sure rewriterules would help.
> Lets say it's something like this
>
> http://www.domain.com/index.php?action=foo
>
> And inside index.php it does something like
>
> <? include($_GET['page'].".php") ?>
>
> This is a gross simplification, but it's my understanding that if the
> file was named 'foo.php' and someone typed in
>
> http://www.domain.com/index.php?action=Foo
>
> It would still work on windows, but not on linux because of case
> sensitivity.

Is this a php based app then?

You could look at storing your files in mysql which could be made
to be case insensitive and then you could full text index them
quicker and easier as well as preserve this functionality across
platforms.

-Ross

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Ruslan Sivak wrote:

John R Pierce wrote:

Ruslan Sivak wrote:
We have an application that was build on a windows platform that
expects a case insensitive file system. Is there a way to set one up
in CentOS? NTFS should work, I think, but I feel uneasy using that
under Linux.



NTFS is not whats case insensitive, its WINDOWS thats case insensitive.

you'll need to fix that application to either use all monocase names
or to be self-consistent enough to run properly on a case sensitive
system.



I will look into fixing the application, but it may not be possible.
There must be a filesystem that I can use. Mac's have HFS+ which can
be case insensitive. Aren't Macs pretty much Linux? Isn't there a
similar filesystem availalbe for linux? I wouldn't run the whole
system on it, just the portion that hosts the app.





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On Wednesday 30 April 2008 07:29:25 am Ruslan Sivak wrote:
> Jim Perrin wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Ruslan Sivak <russ@vshift.com> wrote:
> > Does the entire filesystem need to be case insensitive, or is this a
> > web based product, where you can do some apache rewrite-fu to make
> > this work instead?
>
> It is a web based product, but I'm not sure rewriterules would help.
> Lets say it's something like this
>
> http://www.domain.com/index.php?action=foo
>
> And inside index.php it does something like
>
> <? include($_GET['page'].".php") ?>
>
> This is a gross simplification, but it's my understanding that if the
> file was named 'foo.php' and someone typed in
>
> http://www.domain.com/index.php?action=Foo
>
> It would still work on windows, but not on linux because of case
> sensitivity.

there is always strtolower and strtoupper, since you are using PHP.

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Steven R. Ringwald wrote:

On Wednesday 30 April 2008 07:29:25 am Ruslan Sivak wrote:


Jim Perrin wrote:


On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Ruslan Sivak <russ@vshift.com> wrote:
Does the entire filesystem need to be case insensitive, or is this a
web based product, where you can do some apache rewrite-fu to make
this work instead?


It is a web based product, but I'm not sure rewriterules would help.
Lets say it's something like this

http://www.domain.com/index.php?action=foo

And inside index.php it does something like

<? include($_GET['page'].".php") ?>

This is a gross simplification, but it's my understanding that if the
file was named 'foo.php' and someone typed in

http://www.domain.com/index.php?action=Foo

It would still work on windows, but not on linux because of case
sensitivity.



there is always strtolower and strtoupper, since you are using PHP.

Steve



I'm not using PHP, this was just an example. I am considering using
something like strtolower, but then I would have to have all the
included files in lowercase, and I believe they are in camelcase now.


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