Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Thu, 24 Jun 2004 09:38:59 +0200 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Allow root to choose vfat policy to UTF8 |
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Hi,
Right now the kernel detects the sysadmin trying to set the iocharset of vfat to UTF8 and prevents this with an error. While I can see that this is not recommended, enforcing this is policy that probably doesn't belong in the kernel. The patch below makes this situation a warning and a recommendation instead of a strong blockage.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=126641
is an example of a sysadmin disliking this policy enforcement.
Greetings, Arjan van de Ven
--- linux-2.6.7/fs/fat/inode.c~ 2004-06-24 11:20:43.941750760 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.7/fs/fat/inode.c 2004-06-24 11:20:43.943750521 +0200 @@ -499,9 +499,8 @@ } /* UTF8 doesn't provide FAT semantics */ if (!strcmp(opts->iocharset, "utf8")) { - printk(KERN_ERR "FAT: utf8 is not a valid IO charset" - " for FAT filesystems\n"); - return -EINVAL; + printk(KERN_ERR "FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset" + " for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!\n"); } if (opts->unicode_xlate)[unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |