Re: Any advantages of Unix formatting
Re: Any advantages of Unix formatting
- Subject: Re: Any advantages of Unix formatting
- From: Jonathan Stimmel <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 13:37:04 -0700
- Mail-followup-to: Jonathan Stimmel <email@hidden>, email@hidden
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 09:17:40PM +0100, Finlay Dobbie wrote:
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On Tuesday, September 4, 2001, at 07:18 pm, Howard Oakley wrote:
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> That is not correct. You can do this in HFS+ (I have many folders in
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> there are case-sensitive filename conflicts) so long as you do not open
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> folder in the Finder.
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No, you cannot. HFS+ is a case-insensitive filesystem. I'm sure of it.
Actually, I was surprised that I *could* create two *files* with
case-insensitive conflicting names, however not without weird side
effects ("rm" demonstrated here):
$ touch aaa
$ touch AAA
$ ls -l aaa AAA
-rw-r--r-- 1 jon staff 0 Sep 4 13:35 AAA
-rw-r--r-- 1 jon staff 0 Sep 4 13:35 aaa
$ rm AAA
$ ls -l aaa AAA
ls: AAA: No such file or directory
ls: aaa: No such file or directory