!@#$!@$@#%@# $^%$^#$&#%^#$ MAC !@#$%!

[mdlbear]

Stupid goddamn Mac filesystem is secretly case insensitive. If you have a directory called Tracks and a file called tracks, rsync complains about not being able to delete the directory when it goes to transfer the file. THIS IS JUST FSCKING WRONG!

The Mac may have Unix in its distant ancestry, but it is not Unix. When I get back from this trip I'm ordering a real computer.

Given a strong desire to be able to collaborate cross-platform, I'm probably going to have to make an ugly hack to work around this stupidity. That doesn't mean I have to like it, and it doesn't mean I'm not going to get bitten in the arse by it somewhere else.

In other news, the ribbons we had overnighted seem to have gone astray; it was apparently delivered to a nonexistant address in another city. Their tracking site doesn't say what address it was actually addressed to, so it's impossible to tell why it went astray. Remind me never to have things shipped by FedEx.

Comments

[aerowolf.livejournal.com]

HFS+ is case-preserving, but not case-sensitive, unless you ask it to be. This is the same kind of trade-off that Microsoft has had to make for the sake of backward compatibility.

You can format the drive as case-sensitive, but you will have a lot of weird trouble in applications which (sloppily) expect the insensitive-but-preserving behavior. The best option is to create a sparse disk image in Disk Utility and format it with the case-sensitivity, creating a sandbox that your case-sensitivity will work within.

[mdlbear]

In this case, the best option is to write software that doesn't take advantage of being case-sensitive, but it's just another reason not to use a Mac as my everyday computer.