Re: PATCH: option to ignore case in filenames

2003-09-30 Thread John R. LoVerso
> It does seem curious that the two vfat > filesystems are reporting the names differently. The FAT longname stores the case used when the file is created as it, but allows either case to match it on open. If you have already existing filesystems where one has "Foo" and the other has "foo", then

Re: PATCH: option to ignore case in filenames

2003-09-30 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:26:40PM -0400, John R. LoVerso wrote: > > This is a mount option issue. > > Don't mount with posix enabled. > > Did you try that? > > FWIW, I'm not using the "posix" option to the vfat fs. It would have > solved my problem, but it doesn't work consisitently. I did try

Re: PATCH: option to ignore case in filenames

2003-09-30 Thread John R. LoVerso
> This is a mount option issue. > Don't mount with posix enabled. Did you try that? FWIW, I'm not using the "posix" option to the vfat fs. It would have solved my problem, but it doesn't work consisitently. I did try it: posix Allow two files with names that only differ in case. The

Re: PATCH: option to ignore case in filenames

2003-09-30 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 06:36:54PM -0400, John R. LoVerso wrote: > I have two DOS filesystems mounted on Linux as "vfat" which I want to rsync. > (They are on flash cards, so that they are also small). rsync gets tricked > because the filesystem treats names differing in only case as the same. > T