From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 17:53:56 GMT
Subject: Re: OSX, ZFS, UTF8, git - somebody hates me in this list
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0805051049440.32269@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <8663tsbqg0.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>



On Mon, 5 May 2008, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> 
> Also, ZFS is case-sensitive, which leads me to believe that out of
> the box, it's more like UFS.
> 
> Still don't know why ZFS breaks but UFS works.

UFS is a traditional Unix filesystem, and will not mangle your filenames.

ZFS apparently acts like a case-sensitive HFS+: it still tries to 
normalize to UTF-8 (and does it badly, at that - picking an Apple-specific 
almost-NFD form of normalization rather than the more sensible NFC form).

So ZFS may not corrupt cases, but it still corrupts UTF-8 filenames.

			Linus