On Friday October 17 2014 01:40:23 Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
>
> Correct, but if you're (a) formatting a disk and (b) choosing HFSX+
> (case-sensitive HFS+), you know what's up. New Macs are already set up with
> HFS+, and I don't want anyone with the default filesystem to accidentally
> trash anything because they think they can swap case with reckless abandon.
It's been a while since I checked, but isn't it possible to go from the one to
the other by swapping a switch with the right tool, without needing to reformat
the whole partition? (As to HFSX vs HFS: I don't think that's what defines
case-sensitivity, but the HFSX term has been used a little to carelessly to be
sure).
In any case, you won't trash anything by converting a fs to case-sensitive,
it's the opposite step that can lead to aliasing.
Of course it's not perfectly clear what a converter should do with an item foo
and Foo both resolving to the same object on a case-insensitive FS ... hard
link them? Duplicate? Soft link?
> The only exception is the Mac, and it's a little late changing it after the
> installation with which it came.
Not if it can be done like journaling (i.e. just toggle a switch) but there
used to be a time when it was unwise to have a case-sensitive boot partition. I
still stick to that because I probably still have apps around that assuming
they're on a case-insensitive fs. (IIRC Adobe apps were good at that.) However,
all my other (non {FAT,exFat,NTFS} volumes are case-sensitive, because that's
the way things ought to be for me.
R.
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