Paul, thanks for the detailed answer and own trials. I have no problem replicating them, even using your file names or ??????. Also using rsync to copy them from one pool to the other causes no problem. Hundreds or thousands of files exist in my system which are fine to copy or move.
Maybe just to summarize: there are two pools with slightly different settings: source for the copy: mpool utf8only off - mpool normalization none - mpool casesensitivity sensitive - destination of the copy: backusb utf8only on - backusb normalization formD - backusb casesensitivity mixed - root at opensolaris:~# uname -a SunOS opensolaris 5.11 snv_124 i86pc i386 i86pc Some (very few) of the files with accented characters cause issues because of the utf8only and normalization. This problem did NOT occur when these properties were at default (as in mpool or your rpool). rsync can copy them across, but after that they are 'untouchable'. Unfortunately the utf8only and normalization properties are set at creation time of a pool or file system so I cannot temporarily disable them. I checked the env settings: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 but there is no GDM_LANG setting at all. Is that relevant? Where do I set it ideally? Martin -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
