Re: [PATCH v4 6/6] docs/zh_CN: how-to: document case-sensitive APFS setup
From: Dongliang Mu
Date: Sun Aug 16 2026 - 00:55:28 EST
On 8/15/26 5:44 AM, Chen Miao wrote:
The APFS volume used by macOS is case-insensitive by default, while the
kernel tree contains file names that differ only in case. Document the
diskutil commands needed to identify the APFS container and add a
case-sensitive volume before cloning the tree.
Signed-off-by: Chen Miao <chenmiao.ku@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Weijie Yuan <wy@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Dongliang Mu <dzm91@xxxxxxxxxxx>
BTW, this how-to file is only guidance for Chinese contributors. So there is no original English documentation and we don't need change the english documentation at the same time.
Dongliang Mu
---
Documentation/translations/zh_CN/how-to.rst | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/translations/zh_CN/how-to.rst b/Documentation/translations/zh_CN/how-to.rst
index 9ec2384e1..e1d3d2b8b 100644
--- a/Documentation/translations/zh_CN/how-to.rst
+++ b/Documentation/translations/zh_CN/how-to.rst
@@ -102,6 +102,14 @@ Linux 发行版和简单地使用 Linux 命令行,那么可以迅速开始了
开头的命令。**请注意**,最新版本 Sphinx 的文档编译速度有极大提升,强烈建议
您通过 pip/pypi 安装最新版本 Sphinx。
+macOS 默认使用不区分文件名大小写的 APFS 卷,而内核源码树中存在仅大小写
+不同的文件。在执行 ``git clone`` 前,可在现有 APFS 容器中创建一个额外的大小写
+敏感卷(先用 ``diskutil apfs list`` 找到容器标识符,并将下面的 ``diskX`` 替换为该标识符)::
+
+ diskutil apfs addVolume diskX APFSX Linux
+
+然后将内核源码克隆到新卷中。
+
如果您处于一个多用户环境中,为了避免对其他人造成影响,建议您配置单用户
sphinx 虚拟环境,即只需要执行::