[OpenAFS-devel] case-insensitive fileserver partitions

[Edward Moy]

It seems to me that changing flipbase64.c to use a different set of 64 characters might fix the case sensitivity problem. Ignoring the uppercase letters, we have 69 "printable" ASCII characters to choose from. We want to avoid slash and backslash. We probably want to avoid single and double quotes, and probably the space characters. That leaves us 64. Are there other characters we need to avoid, meaning we need to bring back one of the other characters.

Does anyone know if there is any other place the a case-insensitive filesystem might be problematic?

And how best to convert to this new mapping, since it would be incompatible with existing servers? As a configuration option, or as part of a new version (with a tool to convert old servers to using the new names)?
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