apfs – Tarik Billa

Apple File System (APFS) Check if file is a clone on Terminal (shell)

November 29, 2023 by Tarik

After 3 years and 2 months… I received a lot of points because of this question here on stackoverflow. So yesterday I decided to revisit this topic :). Using fcntl and F_LOG2PHYS is possible to check if files are using same physical blocks or not. So I made an utility using this idea and put … Read more

Case-sensitive path collisions on case-insensitive file system when I do git clone

June 15, 2023 by Tarik

Definitions case-sensitive filesystem: treats john.jpg and JOHN.jpg as two different files and this is allowed. case-insensitive filesystem: treats john.jpg and JOHN.jpg as one and the same file which is not allowed. Problem ‘components/User/index.js’ ‘components/user/index.js’ The problem here is that User and user are not allowed to co-exist at the same time inside the components directory … Read more