Re: smbfs works!

David Woodhouse (dwmw2@cam.ac.uk)
Sun, 07 Dec 1997 14:39:55 +0000

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shirsch@ibm.net said:
> Not sure if anything can be done about this, but thought I'd mention
> it. As a point of reference, the smbfs support in 2.0.x kernels mapped
> everything under FAT filesystems to lower case (which I think looks
> better). However, given the Win95 and NT support for long file names
> and mixed case, there doesn't seem to be a clear win..

We fixed this in ncpfs recently by putting in our own d_hash and d_compare
routines to be case-insensitive, and modifying find_inode_number similarly.

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