I’m a big geek, and I love case sensitive file systems. It means a file LikeThis.txt is not the same as a file likethis.txt and that really helps with consistency in a developers world.
Oops! What a horrible Idea. Well, not really – There’s only one thing wrong.
As it turns out 3rd party applications still live in the stone ages. Adobe CS3 will refuse to install. There are a few other apps that apparently go sour as well (popcap games). Of course because Adobe CS3 is a sack of shit – and you cannot install it to another volume (wtf is with that?) – I may just not bother installing it at all. At least the games will still run from their respective DMG files.
My only other real option is to format again and do a full restore of what I’ve got installed right now using Time Machine…
All I can say is lame lame lame. Get with it Adobe (and you few others, PopCap games for example)
and another gotcha : juli 25 2010 I found out the hard way that the installation DVD of Mac OSX server 10.6 (0Z691-6495-A) contains a lethal bug:
it CAN NOT do a full restore of a backup of a case-sensitive filesystem: the target disk is always automatically reformatted in HFS+ (NOT case sensitive). I had it myself, and you can also find a description of this in http://jcs.org/notaweblog/2009/11/11/restoring_case-sensitive_hfs_volumes_with_time_machine/
So… currently my backup of a case-sensitive filesystem cannot be restored and appears unusable: my feeling of being safe was proven false.
Thanks for the I formation. I have long since given up on using a case sensitive filesystem with Mac os x. There are just too many little things that don’t work with it, and now this issue.