Is HFS really "scary"?

[Salvatore Domenick Desiano]

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

I've been mounting a case-sensitive HFS+ partition as /Users for several 
years now (even going back to Panther when it was substantially harder 
and less supported). If you do heave unix work, I heartily recccomend 
it.

/opt is still on /, though, since most of the MacPorts community doesn't 
test case sensitively.

-- Sal
smile.




On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:


o 
o - Jordan
o 
o On Feb 6, 2008, at 10:45 AM, Scott C. Kennedy wrote:
o 
o > But, then you have to deal with lazy developers & QA issues like...
o > Microsoft Office 2004 Entourage can't understand timezone when using sync
o > services
o > cd /Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Office (or the appropriately situated
o > place on your machine)
o > ln -s timezones.xml Timezones.xml
o > ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC /usr/share/zoneinfo/utc
o > Microsoft Office 2008 Entourage can't understand timezone when using sync
o > services
o > cd /Applications/Microsoft Office
o > 2008/Office/EntourageCore.framework/Resources or the appropriately situated
o > place on your machine)
o > ln -s timezones.xml Timezones.xml
o > ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC /usr/share/zoneinfo/utc
o > Symantec/Norton AntiVirus 10 & 11 can't run with case-sensitive filesystem.
o > HR Block TaxCut 2007 can't find images or XML files to function.
o > Feral Interactive - XIII - Game can't run when installed on case-sensitive
o > filesystem.
o > 
o > And I keep finding more and more of them. :(
o > 
o > Scott
o > PS> Anyone else find any issues with Applications or Games?
o > 
o > Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
o > > 
o > > 
o > > On Feb 6, 2008, at 6:28 AM, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
o > > 
o > > > The only problem that I've ever had (and I'm no expert either) is when
o > > > I'd installed
o > > > the perl script for fetching HTTP headers in
o > > > 
o > > > /usr/local/bin/HEAD
o > > 
o > > That's easily remedied by using the new[er] case-sensitive variant of HFS
o > > (also known as HFSX).  You can now choose this as a filesystem type when
o > > you install MacOSX.
o > > 
o > > - Jordan
o > > 
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o > 
o 

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  Salvatore Domenick Desiano
    Doctoral Candidate
      Robotics Institute
        Carnegie Mellon University