Isilion 8.3 Characters - HELP

told my customer to upgrade their application or to move the data to another NAS/CIFS location.

So what did you do?

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From: dynamox

Sent: Wednesday, 25 September 2013 16:01

To: Simon Wilson

Reply To: jive-652365011-abik-2-gclu@emc-ecn.hosted.jivesoftware.com

Subject: Re: - Isilion 8.3 Characters - HELP

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Isilion 8.3 Characters - HELP

reply from dynamox in Isilon Support Forum - View the full discussion

had the same issue, Isilon support told me no possible.

If you need 8.3 names only for a few CIFS client hosts,

rather than for all clients connecting to your Isilon,

have you considered installing a small CIFS "proxy" server in the middle?

Samba can do the name-mangling; you could also check out some

dedicated cache-proxies such as Avere.

-- Peter

Hi,

Is the problem that your translating a long filename to a short filename?  Or that you simply want to create a file with truly only an 8.3 filename.

Such as    filename.txt  or file1234.xls?

You can still create those files on an Isilon cluster.

It is worth pointing out that short file names are not reliable because there is no guarantee that a data set on one server (like windows) will have the same short file name on another (like us).  Also, short file names are generated at creation time so you can end up with conflicting results between systems.

For example lets say you create:

Fileabcd.txt, it gets short file name FILEAB~1.TXT

Then you create:

Fileabcde.txt, it gets short file name FILEAB~2.TXT

If you reverse the process and create:

File abcde.txt, it gets short file name FILEAB~1.TXT

Then when you create:

Fileabcd.txt, it gets short file name FILEAB~2.TXT

Jeff.