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: Justin Walker <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 23:18:05 -0800
On Saturday, Mar 22, 2003, at 19:08 US/Pacific, Randal L. Schwartz
wrote:
"Brian" == Brian Kurotsuchi <email@hidden> writes:
Brian> So, I'm a serious *NIX geek... I am running 10.2.4 with UFS
Brian> root, so I am curious why you suggest not doing it. A short
Brian> investigation on my part only yielded someone's comment that
Brian> UFS was "slow". Is this the basis of your comment as well?
I really tried to make UFS my root disk, but finally gave up. Too
many broken tools, too many broken standard installers, too many
vendors just not Doing The Right Thing if UFS was root. Very
frustrating.
Get used to it. HFS+ behavior is what Mac customers want, and are used
to.
Now I have a /UFS.dmg that I mount at boot time that creates
/Volumes/UFS/ and I do all my real work there. My /opt points in
there, and it's where I put all my CVS and mirrors, because I can't
trust that someone "on the other side" didn't make two things that
differ only in upper/lowercase. In fact, there's a few things in the
Perl CPAN that are like that.
There are a number of 'projects' that make that mistake. Case
distinctions in file names seems like the wrong thing to do. FWIW,
I've been developing Unix systems since 1975, so I do know the issues.
Maybe someday, Apple will get their act together and make UFS usable.
It is usable, but it isn't what the customer base expects or wants;
therefore, it's not what the majority of developers deal with.
Regards,
Justin
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