Is HFS really "scary"?

[Jordan K. Hubbard]

That's a fair point.  Perhaps better to format a "work" partition as  
HFSX then and keep the system partition as HFS.  That way, you can at  
least check out sources and do various things which are tripped up by  
case insensitivity while still not running afoul of apps like this.

- Jordan

On Feb 6, 2008, at 10:45 AM, Scott C. Kennedy wrote:

> But, then you have to deal with lazy developers & QA issues like...
> Microsoft Office 2004 Entourage can't understand timezone when using  
> sync services
> cd /Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Office (or the appropriately  
> situated place on your machine)
> ln -s timezones.xml Timezones.xml
> ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC /usr/share/zoneinfo/utc
> Microsoft Office 2008 Entourage can't understand timezone when using  
> sync services
> cd /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Office/ 
> EntourageCore.framework/Resources or the appropriately situated  
> place on your machine)
> ln -s timezones.xml Timezones.xml
> ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC /usr/share/zoneinfo/utc
> Symantec/Norton AntiVirus 10 & 11 can't run with case-sensitive  
> filesystem.
> HR Block TaxCut 2007 can't find images or XML files to function.
> Feral Interactive - XIII - Game can't run when installed on case- 
> sensitive filesystem.
>
> And I keep finding more and more of them. :(
>
> Scott
> PS> Anyone else find any issues with Applications or Games?
>
> Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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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