What NetApp does when sharing files between Windows and UNIX

[Kenichi Okuyama]

Dear Richard and all,

>>>>> "RS" == Richard Sharpe <rsharpe at ns.aus.com> writes:
RS> Then, from the UNIX side, I created FOO~1.C. This succeeded! Under 
RS> Windows, I got FOO~~1.C. Interesting.

?

According to 
http://www.netapp.com/tech_library/3014.html

It says that they have two names managed on their file system WAFL,
UNIX-style and NTFS-style.  When you requested for creating file
"FOO~1.C", they looked at UNIX-style file names, and found no file
named like so.

So, WAFL accepted "FOO~1.C" as new Unix-style file name. And since
so, they had to create new file name of NTFS-Style, and named it
"FOO~~1.C".


I don't really know if creating NTFS-Style filename "FOO~~1.C" out
of UNIX-Style name "FOO~1.C" was correct (compatible against NT) way
or not.

But I see nothing inconsistant.....


Maybe section 4.1.3 and 4.5 will help understanding their system.


regards,
---- 
Kenichi Okuyama