From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS3215 2.6.0.0/16 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from out1.vger.email (out1.vger.email [IPv6:2620:137:e000::1:20]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F5CC1F670 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2022 23:47:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229975AbiCDXsh (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2022 18:48:37 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:59564 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229889AbiCDXsg (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2022 18:48:36 -0500 Received: from siwi.pair.com (siwi.pair.com [209.68.5.199]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E74C122B29 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2022 15:47:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from siwi.pair.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by siwi.pair.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 544913F47F8; Fri, 4 Mar 2022 18:47:47 -0500 (EST) Received: from jeffhost-mbp.local (162-238-212-202.lightspeed.rlghnc.sbcglobal.net [162.238.212.202]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (128/128 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by siwi.pair.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 207A23F4147; Fri, 4 Mar 2022 18:47:47 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/23] t7527: test FS event reporing on macOS WRT case and Unicode To: Torsten =?unknown-8bit?Q?B=C3=B6gershausen?= , Derrick Stolee Cc: Jeff Hostetler via GitGitGadget , git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Hostetler References: <20220224173305.gbr2waw77xpuieub@tb-raspi4> From: Jeff Hostetler Message-ID: <2bbc2802-8ab8-74ec-3fca-a933100752f3@jeffhostetler.com> Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2022 18:47:46 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20220224173305.gbr2waw77xpuieub@tb-raspi4> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On 2/24/22 12:33 PM, Torsten =?unknown-8bit?Q?B=C3=B6gershausen?= wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 09:52:28AM -0500, Derrick Stolee wrote: >> On 2/15/2022 10:59 AM, Jeff Hostetler via GitGitGadget wrote: >>> From: Jeff Hostetler >>> >>> Confirm that macOS FS events are reported with a normalized spelling. >>> >>> APFS (and/or HFS+) is case-insensitive. This means that case-independent > [...] > > An interesting article can be found here: > https://lwn.net/Articles/784041/ > > And to be technically correct, I think that even NTFS can be > "configured to be case insensitive in an empty directory". Yes, it is now possible to have NTFS be case sensitive (on a directory by directory basis). I haven't had a chance to experiment with this yet, but I'm hoping that if we can always have the daemon report using the on-disk spelling, we can avoid most of this insanity. Thanks, Jeff