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SubjectRe: Your backup is unsafe!
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 :-)

He maintains it? Fair enough then.

>>> 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" :-/

The original design is, yes, but then, that came from Microsoft, so
what can one expect. The Linux implementation isn't too bad in a lot
of ways, but there are a few tweaks that are needed to polish it up to
the professional standards that Linus generally requires.

>>> 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...

True, but my response to the former is to ask why one should be forced
to run something like dosemu just for that one task, especially when
one can back up everything but the vfat partitions without doing so.

Best wishes from Riley.

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| development, ie., the quality is too high and the speed is too high, |
| in other words, I can implement this XXXX feature, but I bet someone |
| else has already done so and is just about to release their patch. |
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* ftp://ftp.MemAlpha.cx/pub/rhw/Linux
* http://www.MemAlpha.cx/kernel.versions.html


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