At 12:08 PM 9/19/2001 -0400, John Siracusa wrote:
>On 9/19/01 11:51 AM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> > John> (HFS and HFS+ are indeed case-insensitive though)
> >
> > Which they *could* have fixed from the Unix side in the same way that
> > MachTen did it..., and I wish they would. In MachTen, each
> > case-folded collision on the HFS+ side is handled by adding \0 bytes
> > until the names are distinct. The finder has a bit of a mess renaming
> > them, but at least you can see them as separate files. And no
> > collisions from the Unix side!
> >
> > So, foo, Foo, and FOO would be stored as "foo" "Foo\0" and "FOO\0\0",
> > effectively.
>
>Ick.
>
> > Is there anybody I can write at Apple to beg for this?
>
>If you're going to beg, beg for an actual case-sensitive file system, not an
>evil hack on top of HFS+ (the hard link hacking is bad enough ;) Check
>lists.apple.com for the relevant mailing list archive(s) to see how this
>debate has gone so far.
Bletch. Case-insensitivity's much nicer in a filesystem. But this isn't the
place to go into that, I think. :)
Dan
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