adlerosn / cicpoffs

Case-Insensitive Case-Preserving Overlay FUSE File System - play games with broken mods on linux that rely on Windows's case insensitivity

Case-Insensitive Case-Preserving Overlay FUSE File System

cicpoffs

This is a case-insensitive overlay FUSE file system, like CIOPFS.

The difference is that:

• This one preserves the original case.
• This one doesn’t have the limitation that “All filenames in the data directory which aren’t all lower case are ignored.”
• This one has been very poorly ported to work with modern (3.0+) versions of FUSE.

Motivations

• Run Stardew Valley (linux) with some mods (that are cross-platform in theory, but relies on Windows' case-insensitive file system).
• Run TESV:Skyrim (linux) with some mods (that are cross-platform in theory, but may have issues deriving from Windows' case-insensitive file system and there's no enforceable convention in modding).

Pre-built packages

Check the releases tab.

Preserve inode number

Add -o use_ino argument to the commandline otherwise each case combination that points to the same file will get different inodes.

License

GPLv2

cicpoffs's Issues

Preserve inodes?

I'm not sure whether this is possible, but, I'm missing that inodes are different for the same file, but accessed with different case. Is it possible to make them equal?

This program is very useful, so thanks for sharing it. It is just not perfect due to that because I have some programs where it doesn't work because those programs check for inodes to know whether the filesystem is case sensitive or not, and it ends up identifying cicpoffs mounts as case-sensitive due to that.