On Jan 24, 2008 6:19 AM, Kevin Ballard <kevin@xxxxxx> wrote: > I don't get why you're still calling it corruption Because in a modern Internet-aware world, whoever designs a FS needs to acknowledge that they will need to store files from other systems that have other assumptions. That is, if they want to interoperate. As you noted not long ago, it is a serious problem if an HFS+ partition is shared over NFS. If you look at all the apps that have problems with this aspect of HFS+ , they are all apps that transfer files over the network over diverse protocols. That's why it's a problem with git, because the files may be coming from a different machine, running any arbitrary OS that git supports. In such scenario, can you understand why everyone is saying that HFS+ and the VFS should not mangle names, even if it makes sense to some use cases under OSX? And do you understand why the same applies to git, being a network-sharing-oriented app? So -- if OSX was doing things to make it easier for users to find matching files at the Finder level, that'd be _fine_. But the FS has to deal with a lot more variety than that. So this is a bad design decision -- perhaps less obvious under OS8/9, but completely disastrous with a network OS such as OSX. Call it "different" if you want, but that's a euphemism for "wrong". cheers, m - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
