On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 12:13:35PM -0500, Ken Hornstein wrote:
> >On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 08:28:10PM -0500, Ken Hornstein wrote:
> >> NetBSD-current fails to build the distribution on this filesystem (built
> >> a kernel fine, though).  The problem I'm running into is a conflict between
> >> _Exit.o (from _Exit.c) and _exit.o (from _exit.S).
> >
> >Also the "CVS" and "cvs" directories are another example of this
> >weirdness.
> 
> Even though the CVS files ended up in the same directory as the cvs source
> files, that worked okay.  Go figure.
> 
> >In short you need a defacto-unix-standard case sensitive file system
> >to do unixy things.  I'm amazed that Apple even considered making
> >such a file system for a Unix-based box. Hopefully HFS++ will fix this.
> >I'd gripe more about Apple, but this isn't the place to do it.
> 
> I was playing around with an external firewire drive, and it looks like
> creating a case-sensitive bootable filesystem is relatively straightforward
> under 10.4.  It just takes a while to copy stuff to my firewire drive and
> back.  I guess from stuff I had read, Apple went with case-insensitive
> as a default because OS 9 was that way.

There still is some software that will not work on a case-sensitive
file system.  Adobe Creative Suite is just one of them.
-- 
Juergen Hannken-Illjes - hannken@eis.cs.tu-bs.de - TU Braunschweig (Germany)