Re: Case-sensitivity in Terminal.app and X11 xterm
Re: Case-sensitivity in Terminal.app and X11 xterm
- Subject: Re: Case-sensitivity in Terminal.app and X11 xterm
- From: David Brown <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 20:27:05 -0800
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 07:29:11PM -0800, Nick Zitzmann wrote:
> A number of Mac programs, mostly Carbon programs that have to transfer
> resources or certain types of data around, or depend on case
> insensitivity, do not work with UFS. Unfortunately, this means that you
> can't run Palm Desktop or some other popular Mac programs if you use
> UFS.
Resources through Carbon work just fine in UFS. You do get a lot of
._filename files sitting around. I even tried the Adobe InDesign demo,
which state it doesn't work on a UFS partition. Although it takes about
20 times longer to install, it does run. Spelling check didn't seem to
work.
The only problems I've seen with UFS as root are:
- Installers that refuse to install on UFS. Usually they tell you they
won't install on a network drive.
- Things that have case problems. For example, Netscape.
However, the UFS code in Darwin is synchronous with no journalling.
Certain operations, such as file deletion and creation are very slow. I
also get the impression that Apple has put a lot more work into HFS+.
Other than the case-insensitivity, I'm not minding HFS+. Almost
everything in Unix works with it. I just wish Apple would have made the
extra HFS attributes a little more visible from the Unix side.
Dave Brown
_______________________________________________
x11-users mailing list | email@hidden
Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/x11-users
X11 for Mac OS X FAQ: http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1232.html
Report issues, request features, feedback: http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.