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That terrible moment when you realise you were lied to about Mac OS Extended file system being case sensitive
- Clacke Moved to Unlimited repeated this.
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It isn’t? I thought that, of modern OSes, it was only Windows that doesn’t have a case-sensitive native/default FS?
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@psquid well i’m still running 10.5 but no, it isn’t. :( if you have access to an osx machine touch ABC and abc – you’ll have 1 file
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Cool, and which one depends on the last update/edit.
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Here is someone else discovering this in the exact same way I did: http://ur1.ca/7b08x
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not cool – annoying, whatever you put in ABC or abc will show in the one file. and if you clone the Linux source then you’re screwed.
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Well, obviously, that’s just proof that Linux is a terrible kernel, and definitely not one that Just Works™. ;p
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@psquid :p it’s proof that apple hate developers – especially open source ones
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They probably don’t hate all developers, just the ones who aren’t playing in their sandbox (read: XCode and associated tools).
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Is this HFS+ or some new filesystem? I a bit out of the Mac loop since my iBook died. HFS+ supports ca…
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HFS+ yes it does support case-sensitivity but not on the startup volume – you have to have a separate volume for the case sensitive fs
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@ajpaulson Yes. When I had a Mac I used a separate partition for /opt, where my darwinports was kept, so that it could be case-sensitive.
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@ajpaulson I think I experimented with enabling case-sensitivity on root, but the results were not encouraging. Too much legacy.
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yeah…messy code there. I was discussing #Adobe‘s sloppy ass-code that won’t let you install Creative Suite on case-sensitive file systems
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I like how that’s accurate with and without the hyphen transposed a la http://xkcd.com/37/ (“sloppy-ass code” vs. “sloppy ass-code”). :D
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I have lived my life by that comic since I read it :p I make sure that my hyphenations (apparently a real word) are interchangeable.
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