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This is not actually an OS limitation, it is a default filesystem choice. The Mac supports multiple types of filesystems, including case-sensitive ones. Havin
by makecheck 11y ago
This is not actually an OS limitation, it is a default filesystem choice. The Mac supports multiple types of filesystems, including case-sensitive ones.
Having said that, I wouldn't reformat your boot drive to be case-sensitive because this isn't a common configuration and I'd expect 3rd-party apps to have problems.
What you can do is use Disk Utility to create a case-sensitive file system on a disk image, which gives you case-sensitive behavior when you really want it (and limited to activities on that disk).
- baldfat 11y agoThank you I didn't know this. Then I will again asked why Apple is STILL on HFS+? If they actually moved to ZFS or any modern file format it really would help the developers world. Just seems that this is such a obvious need to be fixed that doesn't get any concern form Apple and most users/developers.
- makecheck 11y agoI'm not sure if there is an official explanation but a pretty good analysis of it is in John Siracusa's review of OS X 10.7 (Lion): http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7/12 http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7/12 http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7/13 http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7/13