Linux – Case-Insensitive Filesystem Options

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What methods are there to make the Linux filesystem case-INSENSITIVE ?

I have asp.net applications developed on Windows, but there are always issues with capitalization/spelling on mono when putting it on Linux.

One way is to mount a localhost SMB share to /var/www.
Are there any others ?

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If you're talking about case insensitivity ONLY within apps running under Mono, you can use the IOMAP environment variable to tell mono to ignore case just like Windows does.

See the details on its use here: http://www.mono-project.com/IOMap

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Linux RAM Cache – Caching and Preloading Files into RAM

vmtouch seems like a good tool for the job.

Highlights:

query how much of a directory is cached
query how much of a file is cached (also which pages, graphical representation)
load file into cache
remove file from cache
lock files in cache
run as daemon

vmtouch manual

EDIT: Usage as asked in the question is listed in example 5 on vmtouch Hompage

Example 5

Daemonise and lock all files in a directory into physical memory:

vmtouch -dl /var/www/htdocs/critical/

EDIT2: As noted in the comments, there is now a git repository available.

Forcing rsync to convert file names to lower case

You can change the case of the resulting filenames on the target server after the rsync. I wouldn't attempt to do this mid-transfer (in case you need to restart the copy). As for making the change on the linux side, you'd need to determine if there are any conflicts. You will also need to determine if you need the directory names' case to be changed. Will all names be unique? If so, an appropriate find script coupled with the tr or rename command could do the job...

# Examples - Don't run directly
`rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/' *` # would change case on files within a directory.

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Forcing rsync to convert file names to lower case

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