[cvsnt] Request for testing: Case sensitive filesystem driver

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Fri Aug 20 00:25:24 BST 2004


I've knocked together a hack to make certain NTFS directories case 
sensitive.  It's just a first cut (more a proof of concept really)
and I'd like people to stress it a bit to see if it does the stuff 
before thinking about integrating it into CVSNT.

The file is at:

http://www.cvsnt.org/archive/posixdir.zip

The usage instructions are (basically):

1. Unpack the two files into a directory
2. Run posixdir -i
3. Reboot
4. Do 'net start posixdir' (it doesn't start automatically for safety 
reasons, as it's a kernel driver).
5. Create a directory somewhere called ~Posix.  It doesn't have to be in 
the root but it makes sense to go there.
6. If it's working NTFS should treat everything under that directory as 
case sensitive in both console and Windows apps (although not all apps 
will cope nicely).

My testing hasn't broke it yet, but if/when it goes I expect it to go 
spectacularly (bluescreen, the whole works...)

Tony




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