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Re: Re-casing directories on case-insensitive systems

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Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Date
Jan 11, 2008, 23:12 UTC
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On Jan 11, 2008, at 6:10 PM, David Kastrup wrote:
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>> But considering that they exist, we should probably offer at least
>> *some* help for people who didn't realize that you could make OS X
>> behave better.
>
> It is not like Linux does not support some case-insensitive file  
> system
> types, too.  So the same problems can be had there as well.

In addition, while there is an option for HFS+ Case-Sensitive, using that can cause bad things to happen as Mac OS X programs are written under a case-insensitive assumption and may behave badly when presented with a case-sensitive filesystem.

-Kevin Ballard
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  1. Kevin BallardJan 11, 2008
  2. Kevin BallardJan 11, 2008
  3. Kevin BallardJan 11, 2008
  4. Linus TorvaldsJan 11, 2008
  5. Robin RosenbergJan 11, 2008
  6. Linus TorvaldsJan 11, 2008
  7. Johannes SchindelinJan 11, 2008
  8. Kevin BallardJan 11, 2008
  9. Johannes SchindelinJan 11, 2008
  10. Linus TorvaldsJan 11, 2008
  11. David KastrupJan 11, 2008
  12. Kevin BallardJan 11, 2008
  13. Robin RosenbergJan 11, 2008
  14. Kevin BallardJan 12, 2008
  15. Robin RosenbergJan 12, 2008
  16. Kevin BallardJan 12, 2008
  17. Junio C HamanoJan 12, 2008
  18. Johannes SchindelinJan 12, 2008
  19. Kevin BallardJan 12, 2008
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  21. Kevin BallardJan 12, 2008
  22. David KastrupJan 12, 2008
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  24. Junio C HamanoJan 12, 2008
  25. Robin RosenbergJan 12, 2008
  26. Johannes SchindelinJan 12, 2008
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  28. Linus TorvaldsJan 12, 2008
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