[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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Edward Moy
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