Messages in this thread |  | | From | OGAWA Hirofumi <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Added CONFIG_VFAT_FS_DUALNAMES option | Date | Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:48:25 +0900 |
| |
tridge@samba.org writes:
> hpa wrote: > > However, as such it really should be paired with a "don't even recognize > > the shortname if a longname exists" option. > > Right, we could just skip the 8.3 name matching and go straight to the > longname match in fat_search_long(). I wonder if anyone ever relies on > the 8.3 matching when a file has a long name on Linux?
Wine or such is using it.
> > It's also questionable IMO if this shouldn't be another FAT superdriver, > > just as we have VFAT, MS-DOS etc. we could have "purevfat". > > It would be only a few lines of code difference between the two > drivers - is it worth the maintainence overhead of splitting it up? > > Maybe a mount option to ignore 8.3 names for files with long names > would be better? Perhaps even the default?
It sounds like to be start of yet another UMSDOS with minimal one. I wouldn't like to repeat UMSDOS history, i.e. I think it needs real users and developers. If not, I wouldn't like to add.
Thanks. -- OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
|  |