Is HFS really "scary"?

[Jordan K. Hubbard]

That's probably never going to happen.  When you're dealing with  
grandma on the phone and she's saying "I can't open my file named  
``fluffy!''", the last thing you need is to go 10 rounds trying to  
figure out whether she actually named it Fluffy, fluffY or FlUFfY.   
That is why case insensitivity was added in the first place (and  
believe me, it was a lot more work than being case sensitive).

At least modern Macs allow you to select case sensitivity as an  
option, vs having to know (as you did in the past) that this meant  
"UFS" instead of HFS (and all the problems that switching filesystem  
types entirely came with).

- Jordan

On Feb 6, 2008, at 11:37 AM, James Sumners wrote:

> These things would probably get fixed Macs shipped with the case
> sensitive filesystem installed. Personally, I was quite surprised that
> the filesystem was case insensitive when I got my first Mac (a
> PowerBook three years ago).
>
> On Feb 6, 2008 2:31 PM, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh at apple.com> wrote:
>> 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?
>
>
>
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