I don't know whats happening here, if I cp -Rfv /a /b the file names in the destination are suddenly getting mangled to 8.3 is gibberish characters. This only started after I installed NFS and I do have old dos clients accessing it, but I don't understand why cp is mangling names that already comply to 8.3 even and not in exported directories. Copy single files seems to work more reliably.
On further investigation this appears to be a DOS client issue. Only files in lowercase on the server appear correctly to the client, regardless of 8.3 qualifications. No idea how you fix that, I can't find anything substantive on NFS filename mangling.
TIA, A
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