Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Jan 2004 14:49:04 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: PATCH to access old-style FAT fs |
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Frodo Looijaard wrote: > Hi, > > I have attached a newer, better behaving version of my patch: > * Implements new mount option oldfat for FAT-derived filesystems. > * Stops scanning dirs when DIR_Name[0] = 0 when oldfat is set > * Writes a 0 to the next entry DIR_Name[0] when overwriting an entry > which has DIR_Name[0] = 0 when oldfat is set >
Please don't call this "oldfat". There is nothing about this which is "old-style"; it's a workaround for a bug in a specific OS.
-hpa
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