Is HFS really "scary"?

Jordan K. Hubbard jkh at apple.com
Wed Feb 6 09:51:57 PST 2008


On Feb 6, 2008, at 6:28 AM, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:

> The only problem that I've ever had (and I'm no expert either) is  
> when I'd installed
> the perl script for fetching HTTP headers in
>
>  /usr/local/bin/HEAD

That's easily remedied by using the new[er] case-sensitive variant of  
HFS (also known as HFSX).  You can now choose this as a filesystem  
type when you install MacOSX.

- Jordan



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