Anand, Whit, and Joseph, I appreciate your help very, very much. Anand's assertion about Samba doing string comparisons was spot on. And Whit's suggestion to change the smb.conf to make it be case sensitive did the trick. I am also forcing "default case = lower" and "preserve case = no" in smb.conf to make sure everything stays lower-case going in. With those changes in place, I believe I can hear a song in the back of my head, "It's a whole new world..." On the web app side we will be writing a request handler that will automatically lower-case any requests coming in, so any referenced images and files will work no matter the casing specified. (I've noticed that not many Linux hosted sites and SaaS platforms handle casing well, not sure why.) We will have some users complain about case sensitivity not being maintained on their files, but I think that the huge win for us being able to use GlusterFS is worth it. There are no great Windows solutions for ever-expandable storage, and we're well past the published limitations of Windows DFS-R. DFS-R is an amazing, refined piece of technology, but it is a solution for a different kind of problem. Thanks again, guys, I never would have navigated to this solution without you. Ken -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20110718/07777c08/attachment.htm>
