On Wed, February 4, 2009 11:05, Ross wrote:
> You can check whether it's set with:
> $ zfs get casesensitivity pool/filesystem
>
> If you're using CIFS, you need that to return "mixed" or "insensitive".
> If it returns "sensitive", it will cause you problems.

It will?  What symptoms?

> Unfortunately there's no way to change this setting on an existing
> filesystem, so if you do have the wrong setting you'll need to create a
> new filesystem and move your files over.  If you have enough disk space
> it's relatively easy to do with CIFS:
>
> - Create a new filesystem on the server using "zfs create -o
> casesensivity=mixed ...."
> - Share it under a new name: "zfs set sharesmb=name=xxxx pool/filesystem"
> - Move all the files (I did a cut/paste with windows explorer since this
> preserves permissions, robocopy would probably work too, mv in solaris
> might but I've not tried that)

Doing it over the network is going to be disastrously slow.

I'd say "cp -a" is the way to go, but I'm guessing that's not supported
under Solaris (don't have my system handy right now).

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