Filename case-insensitivity on OS X

[Tom Anderson]

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Dan Sommers wrote:

> On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 15:21:19 GMT,
> Doug Schwarz <see at sig.for.address.edu> wrote:
>
>> Strictly speaking, it's not OS X, but the HFS file system that is case
>> insensitive.

Aaah, of course. Why on earth didn't Apple move to UFS/FFS/whatever with 
the switch to OS X?

>> You can use other file systems, such as "UNIX File System".  Use Disk 
>> Utility to create a disk image and then erase it (again, using Disk 
>> Utility) and put UFS on it.  You'll find that "touch foo FOO" will 
>> create two files.
>
> You may also find some native Mac OS X applications failing in strange 
> ways.

Oh, that's why. :(

tom

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