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

[Aaron Bentley]

Dustin Sallings wrote:

> On Apr 10, 2004, at 13:51, Aaron Bentley wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
>
>     This one isn't exactly an arch problem.  tla is letting you know 
> that a problem exists (although I suppose it could be more specific).  
> There aren't any tools that would allow both of those files to exist in 
> the same directory on that filesystem, so something's got to give.
>
>     Most of my tla use is on Mac OS X.  The only problem I've had is 
> interacting with users who had conflicting category names in different 
> archives where I wouldnt' expect there to be a conflict.  Problems 
> within the source tree itself are going to be there.

Oh, right.  I'll mention the category conflict thing too.

>     What would CVS do in this case, BTW?
>
> > I've put up a page called "Filesystem Considerations" on the wiki.  It 
> > describes the pros/cons of the filesystems I know about.
>
>
>     Cool.  Any clue how to add case sensitivity on an existing 
> filesystem?  That'd be worth trying and a lot easier than backing up and 
> restoring this 80% full 60GB HDD a couple of times (hopefully, I'd only 
> need the backup step).  Everything important *should* be backed up, of 
> course...

There's this page: it's awful brief, and I haven't tried it, because I 
don't have a Mac.

http://www.codepoetry.net/archives/2003/10/26/casesensitive_hfs_for_the_masses.php

BTW, do you know HFS+'s status wrt to
- long filenames
- efficient small file storage
- inode and device numbers
?

Aaron