[CentOS] case insensitive file system

On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 10:12 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Ruslan Sivak wrote:
> > Jim Perrin wrote:
> >> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Ruslan Sivak <russ at 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.
> 
> How do the files get there?  I'd probably use a brute force approach 
> like lowercasing everything on the way in, or if case needs to be 
> preserved store the real files in one place but build a symlink tree 
> somewhere else of all-lowercase names pointing to the real file, then 
> lowercase the reference and access the name in the symlink directory.
> 
> If you absolutely have to do it through the filesystem, I think you 
> could samba-mount a directory (perhaps even shared from the same 
> machine) with the case insensitive option.

Yes samba will give you this option. Then you are looking at a
performance hit.
"case sensitive = True"

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