Eben King wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Mike Branda wrote:
>
>> Ian C. Blenke wrote:
>>> Mike Branda wrote:
>>>
>>>> Have you ever had to use xfs_check or xfs_repair? How good are
>>>> they? XFS formats out with the same 932GB as Reiserfs so that's
>>>> good. I know Apple uses a version of XFS but I haven't had any
>>>> experience with JFS. Any reason to use it over XFS?
>>>
>>> Yes. I've used xfs_repair numerous times, and I've really had great
>>> success with it.
>>>
>>> Apple doesn't have a version of XFS that I'm aware of, they _do_ have
>>> ZFS in the Leopard betas (10.5) which might be out soon.
>>
>> Sorry, I was confusing HFS with XFS. My Bad.
>
> Make sure you don't confuse HFS.Apple with HFS.SGI (or was it HFS.HP?).
> AFAIK, neither HFS nor HFS+ (from Apple) is case-sensitive, and OSX
> breaks in interesting ways if you use a filesystem that is.
>
FYI, the OSX Disk Utility in 10.4 does have two options for
case-sensitive formatting although it is not suggested as the startup
disk formatting.
Mike Branda Jr.
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