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SubjectRe: Your backup is unsafe!
> > Even if you backup a vfat partition when under wingdoze, what's to say that
> > restoring under wingdoze will produce the same short filenames? All of my
> > experiences have been that it's always ~1. As far as I care, vfat sucks
> > anyway.

I've been damned to having to use it, just often enough.

> Exactly. This is why I've changed my mind. In an effort to make it a little
> less sucky all traces of the short names should be hidden from linux. It'll

I hope not, I feel it's easier to type progra~1 than the entire thing (which
I normally do when looking through things)

> then be sane if a little limited. You then have a couple of ioctls to read
> and write the short names for programs that _must_ have them. (A shortname
> write that would cause a collision will error)

What would be funny if you really wanted to have an 8.3 file ending with ~1
and another already exists <g>

> Hopefully this is what Alexander will do, I don't see and problem living
> with a "sfn_backup". Or with an LD_PRELOAD you could simulate the brain
> damage and/or uglyness of any of the other schemes suggested here. (Mine
> included)

Preload should be the way to go on this. What's 'sfn_backup'? I don't
recall it.

> BY Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
> > Some @#$^ing programs apparently want to be able to access the files via
> > short names.

What about the user too lazy to type in all those blasted spaces? =)

> Then they use the ioctls.
> In fact, Alexander, be nice to them, provide one that gives the long
> name given the short name ... as well as vis-versa.

Personally, I prefer it just the way it is, we really don't need to see the
sfn anyway. But still I'd like to access it as I said above.

> Remember they are already providing special code for VFAT partitons,
> it shouldn't be too difficult to use a slightly more hidden (but still
> documented) interface.
>
> Well Alexander, is that the decision ?

As long as everyone can have it their way with mount options.. I understand
that some people are too afraid of options <g>

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