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Use UFS for shared external drives
Authored by: EricF on Aug 30, '07 10:49:15AM

If I remember right, there are some problems (or just differences) on a filesystem formatted as UFS. The main problem is that UFS is case sensitive as well as case preserving. HFS+ is only case preserving. So software that assumes that filenames are not case sensitive can run into trouble (I've run into some).

As an aside, Mac OS X Tiger doesn't officially support UFS boot volumes (I know the question didn't involve boot volumes, but I thought I'd throw in that tidbit).



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