Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:26:00 +0200 | From | Xuân Baldauf <> | Subject | Re: vfat: why is shortname=lower the default? |
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OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
>Xuân Baldauf <xuan--2004.03.29--linux-kernel--vger.kernel.org@baldauf.org> writes: > > > >>Why is shortname=lower the default mount option for vfat filesystems? >>Because, with "shortname=lower", copying one FAT32 filesystem tree to >>another FAT32 filesystem tree using Liux results in semantically >>different filesystems. (E.g.: Filenames which were once "all >>uppercase" are now "all lowercase"). >> >> > >The reason is only it's very long-standing behavior. When this >behavior was changed before, it seems an one user was confused at >least. > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=97041869500002&r=1&w=2 > >Personally I agree that "winnt" or "mixed" is proper. > >However, if we want to change the default behavior, it would need to >be tested for some months, and if anyone has no objection it can >change I think. > > One could make a slow transition, starting now with a warning like "vfat: warning: You are using "shortname=lower" as default. This may not be what you want. This default will change to "shortname=mixed" after 2005-07-01." if the shortname behaviour is not explicitly selected.
>Thanks. > > ciao, Xuân. :-)
P.S.: I'm now trying to recover about 4M files from "lost case"...
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