[OT] Re: NFS problems, mac & linux

[Shawn L Johnston]

On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 15:25, Bill Campbell wrote:
> 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.

How do you like those LaCie drives?