Case-sensitive file system

[Clemens Lang]

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