On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 03:34:38AM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > Nope, all Macs ever made, from the Macintosh 128K 27 years ago right > through current Macs with the latest OS X, have used case-insensitive > filesystems by default. Several popular OS X GUI apps, especially by > big publishers like Microsoft and Adobe, have at times had case errors > in their apps, such that if you use a case-sensitive filesystem, these > apps won't work right. Use of case-sensitive filesystems is not > recommended on OS X. > > There are some esoteric exceptions. For example, before Lion, if you > had an Xsan filesystem, it was case-sensitive. (With Lion, these are > case-insensitive by default too.)
Sounds like it's worth filing an issue with the APR folks about this if there isn't one already.
