[geeks] Weird MacOS issue

Phil Stracchino alaric at metrocast.net
Wed Dec 24 10:00:07 CST 2008


sammy ominsky wrote:
> I'm using it now with 4x1TB disks in a RAIDZ.  The one major issue  
> I've had with it is case-sensitivity and iTunes.  To iTunes, there's  
> no difference between "Wall Of Voodoo" and "Wall of Voodoo", but to  
> zfs there is, and iTunes forgets where to look where it put the music,  
> and can't find it.

That's entirely iTunes' fault.  There is by this time *NO FUCKING EXCUSE
WHATSOEVER* (pardon my French) for any modern application whatsoever to
be case-insensitive on a case-sensitive filesystem.



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