On Jan 22, 2008, at 7:38 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Theodore Tso wrote:I'd also recommend that the Mac OS X code try to either figure outwhether it is running on an HFS+ partition, or let the HFS+ workaroundcode be something that can be controlled via .git/config. It shouldn't be on unconditionally even on a Mac OS X system, since ifthe git repository is on a ZFS or NFS filesystem, there's no reason topay the overhead of working around the HFS+ bugs.One thing I'd like somebody to check: what _does_ happen with OS X and NFS(OS X as a client, not server)? In particular: - Is it suddenly sane and case-sensitive? - Does the NFS client do any unicode conversion? I tried to google for it, but didn't find the right keywords to get anything useful out of that modern-day internet oracle.
Straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak:
Here's one further question: How does OS X behave as an NFS client? Does it do any unicode normalization? Is it case-sensitive?No conversions are done.. the MacOS X nfs client just sends whatever string it was passed to the server. If I connect to a MacOS X server exporting an HFS file system, I can "touch FOO" and then "rm foo" and the rm will work.
-Kevin Ballard -- Kevin Ballard http://kevin.sb.org kevin@xxxxxx http://www.tildesoft.com
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