[clug] case-insensitive file system

[Kim Holburn]

On 2004 Jun 16, , at 11:17 AM, Edgecombe, Scott wrote:

> 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.

??? is this the same as making an iso image?

> This is can be used to create CD jukeboxes on hard disks.
>
> See man dd for more info.

Yeah one of those very informative man pages.  Although I am familiar  
with dd.  Any hints on the options needed in this case?

>
> Cheers
>
> Scott Edgecombe
>
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> To: Michael Still
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> 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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>>
>>
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Kim Holburn
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National Information and Communication Technology Australia
Ph: +61 2 61258620 M: +61 0417820641
Email: kim.holburn at anu.edu.au  - PGP Public Key on request

Democracy imposed from without is the severest form of tyranny.
                           -- Lloyd Biggle, Jr. Analog, Apr 1961