On 2/6/08, Emmanuel Hainry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Citando Jordan K. Hubbard : > > On Feb 6, 2008, at 11:37 AM, James Sumners wrote: > > > >> These things would probably get fixed Macs shipped with the case > >> sensitive filesystem installed. Personally, I was quite surprised that > >> the filesystem was case insensitive when I got my first Mac (a > >> PowerBook three years ago). > > > > That's probably never going to happen. When you're dealing with grandma > > on the phone and she's saying "I can't open my file named ``fluffy!''", > > the last thing you need is to go 10 rounds trying to figure out whether > > she actually named it Fluffy, fluffY or FlUFfY. > > And what about Phlufy, fluphie, phluffy, phluffie, phluphe and so on? Is > the FS really supposed to correct your filename so that your grandma can > use a computer on the phone? > > > That is why case > > insensitivity was added in the first place (and believe me, it was a lot > > more work than being case sensitive). > > Really, then I don't understand why other old fs were case insensitive, > was it not because the names were just recorded without any case? > > > At least modern Macs allow you to select case sensitivity as an option, > > vs having to know (as you did in the past) that this meant "UFS" instead > > of HFS (and all the problems that switching filesystem types entirely > > came with). > > The fact is that using HFSX instead of HFS+ for MacOSX comes with a lot > of problems too (most of them are not Apple's fault however). > > Using HFS or HFS+ causes problems for some unix stuff who want to have a > directory and a file with the same name apart from the case. > > Using UFS for MacOSX is Humm, I don't know if it is not an option or > just a bad idea.
Well, Emmanuel, if you read my first message on this subject, you can see that I raised the question about ZFS! I'm not saying that ZFS is the be all end all, but I do hope that ZFS will continue to progress into Mac OS X 10.6 . Thanks, T.M. OS X is scary ;) > > > Emmanuel > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > macports-users@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users >
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