Messages in this thread | | | From | "Khimenko Victor" <> | Date | Tue, 3 Aug 1999 16:32:25 +0400 (MSD) | Subject | Re: Your backup is unsafe! |
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In <37A5214C.2871D3CB@pobox.alaska.net> Kent Overstreet (kento@pobox.alaska.net) wrote: > Kent Overstreet wrote: >> I was just looking up how VFAT works, and yes, the 8.3 and LFN versions >> of the filename are independant. The 8.3 version is stored normally, but >> the LFN version is stored in directory entries with the hidden, >> read-only, system and volume label attributes. This way, if you boot >> into an old version of DOS, DOS only sees the 8.3 versions of the names, >> but in Windows 9x the filesystem is handled by a special 32bit driver >> that gives programs that can use it the long version.
Unfortunatelly you missed one TINY problem: checksum of short filename is stored in long filesname. So they are NOT independant. Not at all.
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