OS X filename incompatibilities via NFS

Hello,

I have a Mac Pro w/Xserve RAID that I'm trying to export via NFS to a Linux client. The problem I'm encountering has to do with differences in UTF-8 encoding of filenames between the operating systems. Apparently OS X uses something called NFD (normalization form D) and Linux - along with everyone else - uses NFC (you guessed it - normalization form C).

What happens is, if you're on the Linux client and you try to create a file with foreign characters in the filename, you get a Permission Denied error. Does anyone know of a way to force Linux into using NFD, or setting OS X up to allow NFC?

Thanks,

-David

Mac Pro & Xserve RAID Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Posted on Aug 30, 2006 10:23 PM

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