I've noticed a problem with case insensitivity on my cifs mounts. I ran into it when upgrading from Linux Mint 13 to 17. I've since determined that the problem also exists on debian testing. The shares on my NAS boxes (Buffalo and ZyXEL) are case sensitive with Mint 13 and debian stable (wheezy). They are case insensitive on Mint 17 and debian testing (jessie). I do a lot of file renaming (upper/lower casing) and the insensitivity poses a real problem. Here is an example from fstab for one of my shares and the mount command used. //10.2.76.31/android /mnt/ls-pro-android cifs users,noauto,credentials=/home/trdavenport/sambapw,iocharset=utf8 0 0 mount /mnt/ls-pro-android As a test I first installed a new instance of debian stable (Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.57-3+deb7u2)(cifs.ko v.1.76), installed cifs-utils (2:5.5-1) and configured everything to access my shares. This resulted in case sensitive access to all my shares. Without making any other changes I installed a backported kernel (Linux 3.12-0.bpo.1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.12.9-1~bpo70+1)(cifs.ko v.2.02) and with that all my shares are case insensitive. Using grub I can switch back and forth between the two kernels and the results are consistent. Have I missed an option or configuration that would address this? I think the nocase option is supposed to turn off sensitivity, but can't find anything to turn it on. Could this fix ( http;//article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cifs/8832 ) from 2013-09-12 have something to do with it? If I use fuse/gvfs, all the shares are case sensitive on debian stable and testing as well as Mint 13 and 17. -- Tim Davenport Gatlinburg, Tennessee USA -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
