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> Retrofitting case-insensitivity onto a Unix is bound to lead to ugly corner cases.

It generally works well, but the other way around does not work: many OSX software (most prominently — as usual — adobe's) play fast and lose with casing, and will break down on case-sensitive HFS+.

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I'm pretty sure it hoses Norton's "security" software, too. Of course, if you can't handle documented file system options, I don't trust you to detect exploits….

Yeah, you don't even want to know what I had to do to get around Steam not handling case sensitive filesystems. Steam is the only thing I've noticed that doesn't work right. There was also one driver that installed itself into "/LIBRARY/EXTENSIONS/". That was annoying but easy to fix.

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