On Jan 19, 2008, at 2:29 PM, Kyle Moffett wrote:
On Jan 17, 2008, at 10:04, Kevin Ballard wrote:The main problem with this approach is you know for certain that using HFSX as the boot partition is barely tested by Apple, and certainly untested by third-party apps. This means the potential for breakage is extremely high.No, actually, HFSX boot partitions are fairly well tested by Apple and most 3rd-party programs. I had one for a while and the only problems I encountered were with programs ported from Windows without Mac versions, such as "Microsoft Office for Mac" and "World of Warcraft". "Quake 4" has a few quirks which are easily worked around.
Perhaps the big name companies might do some testing on HFSX, but I can guarantee most third-party programs will not be tested under HFSX.
Also, World of Warcraft isn't a ported program. It was developed for the Mac concurrently with the Windows version. Same with MS Office - it's an entirely different team (the Mac BU) developing MS Office for Mac independently of the Windows version, not a porting job. However, if you're saying these two big-name programs had problems, I wouldn't be surprised to see many more problems on various other third-party apps from smaller companies.
In any case, "just use HFSX" is still not an appropriate solution to the problem, especially since that will only take care of case sensitivity and not the utf-8 stuff.
-Kevin Ballard -- Kevin Ballard http://kevin.sb.org kevin@xxxxxx http://www.tildesoft.com
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