Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 01 May 2009 22:19:35 +0400 | From | Michael Tokarev <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option |
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Dave Kleikamp wrote: > On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 13:47 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 12:41:29PM -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote: >>> From: Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org> >>> Subject: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option >>> >>> When this option is enabled the VFAT filesystem will refuse to create >>> new files with long names. Accessing existing files with long names >>> will continue to work. >>> >>> File names to be created must conform to the 8.3 format. Mixed case is >>> not allowed in either the prefix or the suffix. >> This doesn't make any sense as a compile time option. Might make sense >> as a mount option, but I'd like to hear a rationale for it first. > > Some linux-based devices would be happy not to contain code to create > the long name at all.
Well, is that a rationale per se? Which devices they are and why?
But besides, why `msdos' filesystem is not sufficient? It contains no code to create long file names and no code to read such names either.
/mjt
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