[PATCH 0/2] Native case-insensitive file-system support on Mac OS

[Scott Ritchie]

On 05/27/2010 10:37 PM, Charles Davis wrote:
> On 5/27/10 11:20 PM, Scott Ritchie wrote:
>> Since it's relevant I'll mention the CIOPFS (case-insensitive on
>> purpose) FUSE module that was made a while back.  It works fine as far
>> as I can tell (and I believe Mac supports FUSE),
> I tried compiling it from git on my Mac and it failed horribly (it needs
> the user lock manager that comes with Linux FUSE, which MacFUSE doesn't
> have). *I'm* willing to do the work to make it work, but most Mac users
> just won't bother. Besides, since HFS+ is case-insensitive anyway, why
> bother?
>> it's just waiting for
>> some glue code to be actually used with a Wine installation.
>>
>> Wine still needs to be made aware when it's on CIOPFS though (similar to
>> how it behaves on fat32 partitions)
> That's kinda difficult on Linux. It's easy enough to tell if you're on a
> FUSE FS (statfs(2) will tell you that), but it's somewhat tedious to
> tell exactly which FUSE FS it is (AFAIK, the only way to tell is to read
> the mount table).
> 

Well we could do something blunt like have CIOPFS deliberately make a
"hey I'm case insensitive file" that Wine could look for.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie