Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 Aug 1999 04:56:02 +0400 (MSD) | From | Khimenko Victor <> | Subject | Re: Your backup is unsafe! |
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On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Riley Williams wrote:
> Hi Khimenko. > > > But who will DO it ? AFAIK right now vfat does not work at all :-(( > > It works well enough in 2.2.10 for my purposes, although I'd still > prefer to see those tweaks implemented. > Let's wait for Viro's answer :-)
> > But yes, it looks like good idea since right now you can not SEE > > short names but can USE them (rm shortnam.ext will remove file, > > for example; and you can not create new file with existing short > > name, etc). > > Personally, I see that behaviour as a serious bug in the current code, > as only names that are actually visible should have any affect. OK, > there may be names that are invisible that get labelled as illegal, > and I see no problem with that, but any other behaviour for names that > are not visible is at best a security problem and at worst a disaster > waiting to happen. > The whole vfat design is "disaster waiting to happen" :-/
> > It's frustrating even without backup problems (in fact backup > > problems are not THAT bad: just use doslfnbk from dosemu :-) > > Assuming one runs dosemu. I don't. > You can run dosemu or you can write something like doslfnbk for Linux :-) At your choice. No kernel modifications are needed...
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