Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: linux on HFS? why not HPFS instead? | From | Matthias Urlichs <> | Date | Wed, 8 May 1996 06:55:37 +0200 (MET DST) |
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Hi,
Mike Castle wrote: > >> Unfortunately, you cannot create a case sensitive HFS file system. HFS is >> specified to be case preserving. A Macintosh would have a severe case of >> indigestion if you fed it with a directory in which you have created both >> "Makefile" and "makefile". > >Can a MAC be used as an NFS server? If so, how do the servers do >name mangling then? > I'm not aware of one. Presumably they would encode uppercase letters somehow, or mangle the names entirely and use a "shadow directory" file. (That method might be needed anyway, as Mac names may not be longer than 31 characters. I don't know if NFS can live with that limitation.)
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