From: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 19:08:41 GMT
Subject: Re: OSX, ZFS, UTF8, git - somebody hates me in this list
Message-ID: <86fxswa7ra.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>
In-Reply-To: <905315640805051200g4c155d15xada4f17e5e2fc424@mail.gmail.com>

>>>>> "Tarmigan" == Tarmigan  <tarmigan+git@gmail.com> writes:

Tarmigan> ZFS on OSX may just default to "insensitive" and some form of
Tarmigan> normalization especially if they were/are thinking about making it the
Tarmigan> default fs and wanted backwards compatibility for broken apps.
Tarmigan> Randal, can you make a new FS with casesensitivity=sensitive and
Tarmigan> normalization=none and see how it behaves?

As I posted in a followup, without twiddling anything, ZFS on OSX
is case *sensitive*, but apparently still "normalizes", which is causing
the trip-up.  I'll look to see if there are any parameters I can tweak
to keep it from doing that, but I doubt it.

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