NFS problems, mac & linux

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004, Shawn L Johnston wrote:
>On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 19:17, Bill Campbell wrote:
>
>> The drive formatting on the OS X box shouldn't matter when it's
>> exported (the default OS X file system could cause problems as
>> it's case insensitive).  
>
>With Panther you can have a case sensitive HFS+ filesystem, though I
>think its recommended you don't do that for the system disk.

When I first started using OS X in early 2001, I ran into case sensivity
issues almost immediately while building our software (one system has
subdirectories, Lib and lib, which cannot be intermingled).  I
repartitioned the main hard drive on my G4, spliting it in half with the OS
on the Apple HFS system, and the other half UFS where I put my home
directory with all the source.  When I added a La Cie 120GB external hard
drive, it came from the Mac Store with HFS, and I redid it as UFS before
using it.

So far I've got all my iTunes, iPhoto, and other Apple software running
with their data on UFS with no problems.  I'm reasonably sure that all the
native OS X software doesn't care about resource forks and the other
remnants of OS 9 and earlier versions of Apple operating systems.  I never
ran anything Apple before OS X so that isn't a factor for me.

Bill
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