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DateThu, 2 Jul 2009 11:33:51 +0100
FromAlan Cox <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] Added CONFIG_VFAT_FS_DUALNAMES option
On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 11:42:39 +1000
tridge@samba.org wrote:

> Hi Alan,
>
> > > There really was no such thing as "vfat" anyway. VFAT in the Windows
> >
> > In the eyes of the end user there is such a thing as vfat. This is about
> > expectations not technical issues.
>
> Do you have an example of an end user device that would be affected by
> this change, and which is never distributed in any of the countries
> where a varient of this patent exists?

You gave one: Microsoft Windows XP. Risk of very rare system crashes.

Thats enough in a high reliability environment to require the file system
in question is banned from use site wide at may locations. Can't have a
flash card bringing down a windows dependant US destroyer can they.

Getting "not vfat" by suprise is thus really really bad


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