Re: Any advantages of Unix formatting
Re: Any advantages of Unix formatting
- Subject: Re: Any advantages of Unix formatting
- From: Howard Oakley <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 22:59:54 +0100
On 4/9/01 21:17, "Finlay Dobbie" <email@hidden> 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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No, you cannot. HFS+ is a case-insensitive filesystem. I'm sure of it.
That's what I had thought. But now I am just totally confused!
It is perhaps simplest if (at the risk of drifting OT) I explain what I am
seeing.
I have several folders in my source code repository, many from Linux and
other Unix apps, some of which I believe may well have case-confused name
'duplications'. I know also that whenever I try to copy those folders in the
Finder, it reports the name duplication and stops all further copying. One
such folder is 'apue', the source from Stevens' book. (I'll happily send a
sample to anyone interested enough to follow this up!)
This problem occurs on my current G4 DP 800 (10.0.4 build 4S10), TiBook,
iMacs, and my recently retired Blue & White G3. Although the .tar.gz archive
has been moved to each, it has been decompressed and unpacked using OpenUp
on each, and I can demo the problem on each. Whilst I could accept that I
may have messed the filesystem on one, I cannot have done so identically on
each, nor repeated it with each new folder generated from the original
archive. I can also move this misbehaviour around with hfspax archives.
I had therefore put 2 and 2 together and missed by a few integers. I think
(now). But how can anyone explain this weird misbehaviour? (The files in
question do not have any common characteristics, e.g. Short name beginning
with 0.)
I does still look as if there are case confused near-duplicates - but they
don't show up to ls -la or the Finder.
(Sorry, I really don't have time to chase this up in great detail at
present. I've been trying to get Charm++/Converse to work on these Macs,
ending up with it not recognising the second processor in the G4 DP, and
then causing a kernel panic. Back to Erlang and LAM MPI tomorrow...)
Howard.
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