Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:31:59 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: CONFIG_VFAT_FS_DUALNAMES regressions |
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> > - Similarly, there is a small chance that chkdsk on Windows will > > rename one file in a directory if they happen to have the same 11 > > byte dummy values. The probability of this happening is > > approximately 80x lower than with the previous patch. > > > > What if we had a user mode utility that does these short-names > renames that a user can optionally run after umount? since it > only writes the (random) short-names it's also safe.
Actually, why not having dosfsck creating _matching_ short names for long names? As it only writes short names, it should be safe :-). Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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