[cvsnt] Re: Request for testing: Case sensitive filesystem driver

[Rob Green]

I dont know if your aware but windows NT/w2k/wxp/w2003 already support 
native case sensitive stuff without resorting to hooking.  on wxp you have 
to enable it http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;817921. 
Being that you are in the win32 subsystem you would have to call 
NtCreateFile directly for case-sensitive operations, or just write a posix 
module that runs and does the stuff you need.

"Tony Hoyle" <tmh at nodomain.org> wrote in message 
news:cg3ct5$u3c$1 at paris.nodomain.org...
> 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
>