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Without going into to much politics about how Linus handles his responses, how many random questions a day would you respond nicely to until you just started wr
by garysb 14y ago
Without going into to much politics about how Linus handles his responses, how many random questions a day would you respond nicely to until you just started writing things like "because I am right!"?
In terms of file systems I believe that both opinions have flaws. Who thought that giving the user the choice of case sensitivity was a good idea when creating HFS+? And to take it a step further, why create any kind of hierarchy? why not just define a "bucket of bits, being content" with a set of associated meta for an inode that defines structure and naming, that way everyone can have their cake and eat it. Or am I missing something?
- esolyt 14y agoWell, Linux filesytems (ext2, ext3, ext4) are case-sensitive as well.
- Dylan16807 14y agoThe problem is the choice, not the sensitivity.
- nasmorn 14y agoIn reality there is no choice. If you choose case-sensitive you are basically fucked as there are loads of applications that will never run on your system. It is quite cynical of Apple really.
- eridius 14y agoWhat's wrong with the choice? The vast majority of people won't even see the choice (since they're not formatting their drives manually in Disk Utility) and will get the case-insensitive default that Mac OS has always had. But there are occasional reasons why one would actually want a case-sensitive HFS+ filesystem and for those people, there's a choice.