ciopfs ciopfs is a case insensitive on purpose file system based on FUSE.
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ciopfs is a case insensitive on purpose file system based on FUSE. ciopfs is a case insensitive on purpose file system based on FUSE.ciopfs is a stackable or overlay linux userspace file system (implemented with fuse) which mounts a normal directory on a regular file system in case insensitive fashion.The commands below should illustrate it's function.mkdir -p ~/tmp/ciopfs/{.data,case-insensitve}ciopfs ~/tmp/ciopfs/.data ~/tmp/ciopfs/case-insensitivecd ~/tmp/ciopfsmkdir -p case-insensitive/DeMo/SubFolderecho demo >> case-insensitive/DEMO/subFolder/MyFileAt this point your file system should look like this:case-insensitive`-- DeMo `-- SubFolder `-- MyFile.data`-- demo `-- subfolder `-- myfileTo avoid any conflicts you should not manipulate the data directory directly, any change should be done over the mount point. Any filenames in the data directory which aren't all lower case are ignored.If you want to mount the file system automatically at boot time add a line like the one below to your /etc/fstab./data/projects/ciopfs/data /data/projects/ciopfs/mnt ciopfs allow_other,default_permissions,use_ino,attr_timeout=0 0 0Requirements:· Filesystem in Userspace· International Components for Unicode (C/C++) (optional)Runtime RequirementsIf you want the file system to preserve case information you have to make sure that the underlying file system supports extended attributes (for example for ext{2,3} you need a kernel with CONFIG_EXT{2,3}_FS_XATTR enabled). You probably also want to mount the underlying filesystem with the user_xattr option which allows non root users to create extended attributes.Build RequirementsIn order to compile ciopfs you will need the fuse development files, libattr and if you plan to use unicode characters within file names you will either need glib which is the default or alternatively libicu from icu-project.org.If you want to use neither of those the file system will fall back to libc's tolower(3) function which is only defined for which means it will only work case insensitvely for ascii file names.For ease of use the following 3 Makefile targets are supported:· unicode-glib (default)· unicode-icu· asciiRunning one of those followed by sudo make install should do everything that is needed. What's New in This Release:· unicode support based on glib· better error handling in out of memory situations· various code cleanups

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