Re: FreeBSD NFSv4.1 *CLIENT* - case insensitive filesystems supported? Re: FreeBSD NFSv4.1 client and server - case insensitive filesystems supported?

From: Rick Macklem <rick.macklem_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2026 13:53:56 UTC 
On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 11:55 PM Cedric Blancher
<cedric.blancher@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, 12 Jan 2026 at 23:04, Rick Macklem <rick.macklem@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 1:56 PM Rick Macklem <rick.macklem@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 11:52 AM Cedric Blancher
> > > <cedric.blancher@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Good evening!
> > > >
> > > > Does the FreeBSD >= 14.3 NFSv4.1 client and server support case
> > > > insensitive filesystems, e.g. exported ZFS or FAT?
> > > Greater than, as in 15.0.
> > Oops, that's 15.1->
> > (I looked and it is in stable/15, but not releng/15.0.)
> > (I work with main and the stable branches and don't keep track of when the
> > releases branch off.)
>
> What about the FreeBSD 15.x NFSv4.2 client - does it support
> case-insensitive filesystems?
I suppose. It doesn't care. If an application cares (I don't know of
one, offhand), it can check via pathconf(2) to see if the fs is
case-insensitive (the _PC_CASE_INSENSITIVE pathconf name
was added recently and will be in 15.1).

rick

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