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Aurelio Martin Massoni
Asked: 2019-02-03 10:07:23 +0800 CST

The command "mv test_file TEST_FILE" fails with "mv: ‘test_file’ and ‘TEST_FILE’ are the same file" in a CIFS filesystem

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I have a CIFS filesystem mounted in an Oracle Linux 7 server:

//win-server/shared-folder on /data1/shared_folder type cifs (rw,relatime,vers=1.0,cache=strict,username=winuser,domain=mydomain.com,uid=1000,forceuid,gid=1000,forcegid,addr=10.10.10.10,file_mode=0644,dir_mode=0755,soft,nounix,serverino,mapposix,rsize=61440,wsize=65536,echo_interval=60,actimeo=1)

I have a file called test_file in /data1/shared_folder. When I try to rename it as TEST_FILE I receive the following error message:

$ mv test_file TEST_FILE
mv: ‘test_file’ and ‘TEST_FILE’ are the same file
$ echo $?
1

mv -f test_file TEST_FILE has the same result. I understand that this is related to the Windows server being case insensitive to the file names. But with a previous Red Hat Linux 5 server mounting the same CIFS filesystem, the same command did not show any message, and returned exit code 0. This is the behaviour that I need to replicate in the Oracle Linux 7 server.

I suspect this could be related to the mount.cifs options. I have tried the options cache=none ( suggested in https://superuser.com/questions/1132269/mv-command-reports-x-and-y-are-the-same-file-cifs-filesystem ), cache=loose, and ignorecase, but they did not help.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

Update: The options that I have indicated in /etc/fstab are:

rw,user=...,password=...,domain=...,uid=...,gid=...,file_mode=0644,dir_mode=0755
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