Re: Any advantages of Unix formatting
Re: Any advantages of Unix formatting
- Subject: Re: Any advantages of Unix formatting
- From: Robert S Goldsmith <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 16:00:52 +0100
Ondra Cada wrote:
David,
Could please somebody who *DOES* understand HFS+ comment on?
David Herren (DH) wrote at Tue, 4 Sep 2001 21:32:20 -0400:
DH> According to the WWDC session I saw on this, HFS+ is case insensitive,
DH> but also case preserving.
DH> Thus you can have two files that differ only in case in the same
DH> directory.
You really sure?!? I understood this debate ended by result that you _CAN'T_?!?
Definitely it was proven that things like "touch aaa; touch AAA" or "echo
foo > aaa ; echo bar > AAA" won't do the trick. What would?
By case preserving maybe it means that if you unarchived a tar file it
will allow it but if you tried to create your own it would not. Try it by
creating two files in linux and taring them, copy the tar
across and untar ... It would be interesting to see what tar
does about this anyway. After all, if you did get a tar file
like this and you can't create both files, is the first
overwritten? Is the second not untared? Does the entire
untar fail? Are both created? Is one renamed?
Robert