Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Aug 1999 03:30:41 -0800 (AKDT) | From | Kent Overstreet <> | Subject | Re: Your backup is unsafe! |
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> You have: > > "This is a long filename.txt" "THISIS~1.TXT" > You make > "This is also a long filename.txt" "THISIS~2.TXT" > > You back up both, deletes both and restore > "This is also a long filename.txt" > > If you don't save the short name with the backup, it will now be called > "THISIS~1.TXT", clearly not what you wanted.
Ok, now I get it. But A) you *generally* aren't going to be restoring just one and B) if you're using windows and can use the long filename, then the short filename probably isn't really going to matter. This is really the way vfat works - I sure wouldn't trust the short version in a case like that to stay the same, and you could get the same problem moving around files in windows. So, if we're going to fix this problem that M$ created with their giant kludge of a "filesystem", we shouldn't mess up Linux's filesystem to do it, and we definately shouldn't mess with the tools (tar, cpio, etc.) to do it. If someone is *really* that concerned about the short name changing, it should be fixed with special backup tools. You probably wouldn't need to mess with the kernel at all, just have the backup program generate and store the short version the vfat filesystem is backed up.
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