From owner-freebsd-ppc Mon Mar 24 21:42:51 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FD5437B401; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 21:42:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.nsu.ru (mx.nsu.ru [193.124.215.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6DBC43F75; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 21:42:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru) Received: from drweb by mail.nsu.ru with drweb-scanned (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18xhCd-0004cx-00; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 11:42:27 +0600 Received: from iclub.nsu.ru ([193.124.215.97] ident=root) by mail.nsu.ru with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18xhCZ-0004Zy-00; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 11:42:24 +0600 Received: from iclub.nsu.ru (fjoe@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by iclub.nsu.ru (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2P5g1j1018725; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 11:42:01 +0600 (NS) (envelope-from fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru) Received: (from fjoe@localhost) by iclub.nsu.ru (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h2P5fxjZ018724; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 11:41:59 +0600 (NS) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 11:41:59 +0600 From: Max Khon To: Mark Day Cc: Yar Tikhiy , "Matthew N. Dodd" , 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> References: <20030324225320.B96310@iclub.nsu.ru> <86E4FD83-5E5E-11D7-B20F-00039354009A@apple.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <86E4FD83-5E5E-11D7-B20F-00039354009A@apple.com>; from mday@apple.com on Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 05:10:11PM -0800 X-Envelope-To: mday@apple.com, yar@FreeBSD.ORG, mdodd@FreeBSD.ORG, ppc@FreeBSD.ORG, fs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-31.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, QUOTE_TWICE_1,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Sender: owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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