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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Linus rant on HFS+
Date: 26 Jan 2015 02:00:02 GMT
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On 2015-01-26, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
>
> Linus Torvalds: Apple's HFS+ is probably the worst file system ever
>
>> http://www.itworld.com/article/2868393/linus-torvalds-apples-hfs-is-probably-the-worst-file-system-ever.html
>
>
> His hate of HFS+ seems to be focus on its case insensitive nature.
>
> Aside from Linus "slight" bias against Apple and HFS+, is there anything
> that supports his rant that case insensitive makes for bad file system ?
>
> The only thing I could think of is the overhead of having to store the
> file name in a normalised fashion (for lookups) and the original
> case-preserved filename which is displayed.  (I assume this is how it
> works).
>
> Is this significant ?

If you have to ask...

The author of the article asserts that case insensitivity "causes a lot
of problems", but I have yet to see these supposed problems in the
almost 30 years of using HFS in Mac OS. How has it "caused problems" for
you?

Useless troll. Good work.

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