on 4-30-2008 7:07 AM Ruslan Sivak spake the following: > 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. > > Russ I think that it is the OS that is case sensitive or not, not the filesystem. Posix systems are case sensitive, and since Windows isn't a posix system it doesn't have to be. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 250 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080430/eac554fc/attachment-0004.sig>