Case-sensitive file system
Clemens Lang
cal at macports.org
Thu Nov 6 12:32:13 PST 2014
Hi,
----- On 6 Nov, 2014, at 21:20, Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org wrote:
> I am backing up my FreeBSD server to the MacBook (don't ask) and amongst
> the detritus accumulated last century I found this:
>
> aneurin% ls -l
> total 60
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dave wheel 14414 Jul 18 2000 CHANGES
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dave wheel 5510 Jul 18 2000 EXAMPLES
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dave wheel 23253 Jul 18 2000 README
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dave wheel 5973 Jul 18 2000 UPDATE
> drwxr-xr-x 3 dave wheel 512 Jul 18 2000 examples
> drwxr-xr-x 2 dave wheel 512 Jul 18 2000 hack
> drwxr-xr-x 2 dave wheel 512 Jul 18 2000 html
> drwxr-xr-x 2 dave wheel 512 Jul 18 2000 patch
>
> See the problem? Sigh...
You can always use a sparse disk image with case-sensitive HFS+ (or a
completely different case-sensitive file system, for that matter) as
backup target. In fact, due to OS X' somewhat weird choices on UTF-8
normalization that might in fact not be a bad idea.
--
Clemens Lang
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