While upgrading to Tiger I made a backup of all my stuff just by copying my FileVault image over to my FreeBSD server. I than used the Tiger DVD to erase my hard drive, partition it and install Tiger. I was pleased to discover that the Tiger Disk Utility program supported a case-sensiteve filesystem. Unix folks please stop laughing! This was needed in order to use DarwinPorts or Gentoo Mac OS X correctly on the Mac. So I deliberately choose this new format ignoring my fear that this decision was a mistake.
I now know that this was a mistake. Until today I had no problems with this feature. No Cocoa or Unix program complained or mysteriously crashed like with Panther and an UFS filesystem. But today I wanted to re-enable FileVault on my PowerBook and I just got this message:
So you cannot use FileVault on case-sensiteve filesystems. I hope that Apple will change this soon. I now have to decide if I should install again…
