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Description
It appears the "Case sensitive file system" option for SMB/CIFS external storage mounts isn't currently covered in the Nextcloud admin manual (https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/configuration_files/external_storage/smb.html
). This might lead to some user uncertainty about its precise behavior and how to best configure it.
Adding a section to the SMB documentation about this could be quite helpful. Here's a summary of how this option is understood to function, which might be useful for the documentation:
- Core Function: The main idea is that this option helps Nextcloud understand whether the SMB server's file system is case-sensitive or not. It doesn't make Nextcloud itself enforce a specific case behavior on the storage.
- When the option is ON (checked):
- Nextcloud generally treats filenames with different capitalizations as separate files (e.g., "File.txt" is different from "file.txt").
- File existence checks are typically done with exact case matching.
- When the option is OFF (unchecked):
- This signals to Nextcloud that the SMB share doesn't distinguish by case.
- Nextcloud might then use case-insensitive methods for comparisons or when scanning directories for files.