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SubjectRe: Your backup is unsafe!
On 31 Jul, Robert de Bath wrote:
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| This will save the fakename but not the 8+3 name, if you do a restore
| linux will _normally_ regenerate the same 8+3 name, but not always.
+--->8

VFAT doesn't support symlinks, right? So have getdents() return long
names as (virtual) symlinks to the shortname, or vice versa. Then allow
unlink()/symlink() to change the virtualized name.

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