Re: [Gnu-arch-users] macosx specific problem

[Aaron Bentley]

Dustin Sallings wrote:

> On Apr 10, 2004, at 13:11, Aaron Bentley wrote:
>
> > >     You can't have two files with the same name, but with a different 
> > > case in HFS.
> >
> >
> > What I've heard is that you can only have two files with the same name 
> > if you specifically set up the filesystem that way at creation time.
>
>
>     Right, there's also UFS, but this problem appears to be a case 
> insensitive filesystem.  My guess is that one of them was added by mistake.

Actually, it seems that filesystems can be converted to case-sensitive 
even after creation.  Anyhow, I didn't want it to seem that tla can't 
work on Mac OS X.

I've put up a page called "Filesystem Considerations" on the wiki.  It 
describes the pros/cons of the filesystems I know about.

Aaron