[Samba] Using ZFS Case insensitive filesystems with Samba

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Mon Mar 3 09:53:33 MST 2014


On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 04:37:44PM +0000, Miguel Medalha wrote:
> 
> >> Here's something I learned when working with the FreeNAS folks :
> 
> >> ZFS can be configured to be case insensitive when
> >> you create the filesystem (NOTE - cannot be altered
> >> *after* the filesystem is created).
> 
> >> zfs create -o casesensitivity=insensitive filesystem
> 
> 
> In this case, will ZFS preserve capitals in file and directory names if they are so created (/Data instead of /data)?
> 
> I mean, replicating Windows behavior, which is neither case-sensitive nor case-insensitive but case-preserving.

Yes, it appears to be entirely Windows-compatible.


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