Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 11:41:59 +0600 From: Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru> To: Mark Day <mday@apple.com> Cc: Yar Tikhiy <yar@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Matthew N. Dodd" <mdodd@FreeBSD.ORG>, ppc@FreeBSD.ORG, fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HFS/HFS Plus driver and tools for 5.x are available Message-ID: <20030325114159.A18471@iclub.nsu.ru> In-Reply-To: <86E4FD83-5E5E-11D7-B20F-00039354009A@apple.com>; from mday@apple.com on Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 05:10:11PM -0800 References: <20030324225320.B96310@iclub.nsu.ru> <86E4FD83-5E5E-11D7-B20F-00039354009A@apple.com>
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hi, there! On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 05:10:11PM -0800, Mark Day wrote: > > It would be nice to have an option for case-sensitive mode. > > What do you mean by a case-sensitive mode? > > If you mean allowing two files in the same directory whose names differ > only in case, then you're talking about an incompatible change in the > volume format. yes. > Directory entries are stored in a B-tree, sorted in > part on the case-insensitive name. If you make the names in the B-tree > keys case sensitive, your sort order will be different, and you'll be > incompatible with existing HFS or HFS Plus volumes. If you want to > experiment with this, I strongly suggest using a different signature > word. It can be newfs-time option. Case-sensitive HFS+ volumes can have different signature in MBR (or whatever partitioning scheme is used on that hardware platform). There is a plenty of variants. I think case-sensitive mode is needed if we want to consider HFS+ as a viable replacement (think about journalling and Unicode) for UFS/UFS2. /fjoe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ppc" in the body of the message
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