Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Thu, 12 Apr 2018, Howard Chu wrote: [ Sparse files ]If you want to get the behavior you're looking for, you need to switch to UFS, which supports sparse files like most other POSIX filesystems.But does that not also remove case-insensitivity,
Yes
leading to failures in Mac applications that do not bother to get the case right?
I suppose so. Nobody says you have to use UFS for everything, just use it for a data partition.
Coming from a "real" Unix background, it's quite irritating having (say) "Makefile" and "makefile" the same object... Yes, I've seen cases (!) where both are used.
Yeah, I've seen that too. Not in quite a while tho. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/