Re: [PATCH 02/23] t7527: test FS event reporing on macOS WRT case and Unicode
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- Jeff Hostetler <git@jeffhostetler.com>
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- Mar 4, 2022, 23:47 UTC
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- <2bbc2802-8ab8-74ec-3fca-a933100752f3@jeffhostetler.com>
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On 2/24/22 12:33 PM, Torsten =?unknown-8bit?Q?B=C3=B6gershausen?= wrote:
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> On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 09:52:28AM -0500, Derrick Stolee wrote: >> On 2/15/2022 10:59 AM, Jeff Hostetler via GitGitGadget wrote: >>> From: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com> >>> >>> Confirm that macOS FS events are reported with a normalized spelling. >>> >>> APFS (and/or HFS+) is case-insensitive. This means that case-independent >
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> > An interesting article can be found here: > https://lwn.net/Articles/784041/ > > And to be technically correct, I think that even NTFS can be > "configured to be case insensitive in an empty directory".
Yes, it is now possible to have NTFS be case sensitive (on a directory by directory basis). I haven't had a chance to experiment with this yet, but I'm hoping that if we can always have the daemon report using the on-disk spelling, we can avoid most of this insanity.
Thanks, Jeff