Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:21:02 +1000 | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Added CONFIG_VFAT_FS_DUALNAMES option | | From | tridge@samba ... |
hpa wrote: > However, as such it really should be paired with a "don't even recognize > the shortname if a longname exists" option.
Right, we could just skip the 8.3 name matching and go straight to the longname match in fat_search_long(). I wonder if anyone ever relies on the 8.3 matching when a file has a long name on Linux?
> It's also questionable IMO if this shouldn't be another FAT superdriver, > just as we have VFAT, MS-DOS etc. we could have "purevfat".
It would be only a few lines of code difference between the two drivers - is it worth the maintainence overhead of splitting it up?
Maybe a mount option to ignore 8.3 names for files with long names would be better? Perhaps even the default?
Cheers, Tridge
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