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Re: Release note inaccuracies?



On Friday, January 19, 2001, at 06:54 PM, mbishop <email@hidden> wrote:

One more question:

Darwin can run on both HFS+ and UFS drives. Correct?


Yes. And NFS, too ...

When it runs on a UFS drive, is it case-sensitive?
When it runs on an HFS+ drive, is it case-insensitive?



I think you are mixing up runnig and using [or may be not ...]

When you ***USE*** UFS/NFS you get case-sensitive file names. When you ***USE*** HFS/HFS+ you get case insensitive file name lookup [it's case preserving].

--Umesh
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