[clug] case-insensitive file system

Edgecombe, Scott Scott.Edgecombe at AirservicesAustralia.com
Wed Jun 16 01:17:46 GMT 2004


Just do a dd to copy the CD as an image to the filesystem and then mount
the image as ISO 9660 into your filesystem. This will leave the CD in
its original state and you can then point your web server to the
mountpoint.

This is can be used to create CD jukeboxes on hard disks.

See man dd for more info.

Cheers

Scott Edgecombe

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From: linux-bounces+scott.edgecombe=airservices.gov.au at lists.samba.org
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] On Behalf Of Kim Holburn
Sent: Wednesday, 16 June 2004 11:02 AM
To: Michael Still
Cc: linux at samba.org
Subject: Re: [clug] case-insensitive file system


On 2004 Jun 16, , at 10:44 AM, Michael Still wrote:

> Kim Holburn wrote:
>
>> For a particular use I need a case-insensitive file system.  Short of

>> using samba and doing a remount, does anyone know of a way of doing 
>> this under linux.  Is there an ext2/3 option to do this?  is there an

>> fs that can do this?
>
> I can't see an option for ext2 in the mount man page. If ext2 doesn't 
> do it, then ext3 wont either.
>
> This sounds like a fairly trivial userspace filesystem task, although 
> if you have serious performance requirements then that might not be 
> the right answer. Are case sensitive clients also going to be using 
> the filesystem, or just the case insensitive ones?

We have a number of CDs from conferences we want to look at on our 
intranet.  They seem to have been built using windows.  When we copy 
them onto a linux fs we get lots of broken links because of case issues 
and 8.3 vs. long filename issues.  Some of the broken links are inside 
pdfs.  It is definitely not simple to fix the links.

>
> Mikal
>
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