Ted:

If you have a reproducible bug, then narrow it down to a small
case that I can reconstruct, or point me at a directory in a cell
that I can access, and file a bug report.

You have said several things in the last week regarding problems
with the code but have given absolutely no details that would
provide a means for me to be able to fix it.   I cannot say it
enough, if you can't provide details that allow the problem to
be reproduced, it cannot be fixed.

Jeffrey Altman

ted creedon wrote:
> Well the test case does not have that problem. At least to where it carps.
> 
> Taking a worst case scenario can one drag and drop a entire windows C: drive
> to AFS and back again and expect a faithful reproduction? Since the source
> files are not in conflict in the first place one would expect a round trip
> to work.
> 
> tedc
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> ted creedon wrote:
> 
>>>>This is possibly the case. A month or 2 ago I dragged the same 
>>>>directory
>>
>>from the 1.2.11 to a windows firewire drive using the Windows client 
>>and observed duplicate filename messages from the windows boxes.
> 
> 
> Local Windows file systems are case-preserving but not case-sensitive.
>    If you copy a directory tree from AFS (which is case-sensitive) to a
> local file system and the tree contains files that are different only in the
> case of the characters:
> 
>  1/31/2005  14:38         <DIR>    foo
>  9/28/2004   8:22         <DIR>    FOO
>  8/14/2005   8:21               0  FoO
>  8/14/2005   8:21               0  Foo
> 
> then you are going to run into collisions.   The Windows OpenAFS client
> will do its best to distinguish between these four entries by using a
> case-sensitive first pattern matching followed by a case-insensitive
> pattern matching if that fails.   With the above four entries the client
> will not allow any access to "fOO" or "foO" because the case-insensitive
> match is ambiguous.  This is usually not an issue when using Windows GUI
> dialogs because the file name matchs are always case-sensitive.       
> 
> 
>>Jaltman mentioned that long filenames are not necessarily unique under 
>>AFS, however they are unique in my 1.2.11 AFS filesystem, I don't know 
>>about the 1.3.87 filesystem. I'll investigate.
> 
> 
> That is not what I said.   See above.
> 
> Jeffrey Altman
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