Hi, Some of us were discussion how NetApp handles file names etc, esp when sharing. Their on-line docs suggest that they install 8,3 names in the file system when an ambiguity occurs for CIFS.
I created a file foo.c and Foo.c under UNIX. What I got under Windows was foo.c and FOO~1.C. That second name was persistent, because when I removed foo.c, FOO~1.C stayed around. One hopes that the addition of the 8,3 name is atomic when a clashing name is created. That also implies an ability to seach for case-insenstive name clashes when directory entries are added. This has interesting implications, I think, for a distributed file system. Then, from the UNIX side, I created FOO~1.C. This succeeded! Under Windows, I got FOO~~1.C. Interesting. Regards ----- Richard Sharpe, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
