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Date:      Mon, 20 Jun 2011 22:54:54 +0200
From:      Damjan Marion <damjan.marion@gmail.com>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: best way to do FreeBSD kernel/userland development on OSX ?
Message-ID:  <FF1E784C-24A2-4793-8000-29611AD13B5C@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110620205301.GA11753@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
References:  <20110620205301.GA11753@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>

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On Jun 20, 2011, at 10:53 PM, Luigi Rizzo wrote:

> i recently replaced my laptop with a mac, which opens the problem on
> how do i do FreeBSD development (including kernel work) on it.
> 
> the option i am trying now is running a freebsd VM in virtualbox,
> but it is slightly slow and probably energy hungry.
> 
> I'd like to keep the svn checkut outside the disk image but
> unfortunately the default filesystem on osx is case-insensitive
> so i can't do that -- unless someone shows me how to change
> the filesystem conventions.

According to some email threads this is not a smart option as it might
screw up some applications which assume that FS is case-insensitive.

I shrink my 1st partition and created 2nd one which is 
case sensitive. i'm using it for cross-compiling FreeBSD/ARM kernel.

Damjan




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