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SubjectRe: vfat: Broken case-insensitive support for UTF-8
On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 09:36:25PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 09:34:05PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:
>
> > This is a great idea to get FAT equivalence classes. Thank you!
> >
> > Now I quickly tried it... and it failed. FAT has restriction for number
> > of files in a directory, so I would have to do it in more clever way,
> > e.g prepare N directories and then try to create/open file for each
> > single-point string in every directory until it success or fail in every
> > one.
>
> IIRC, the limitation in root directory was much harder than in
> subdirectories... Not sure, though - it had been a long time since
> I had to touch *FAT for any reasons...

Interesting... FWIW, Linux vfat happily creates 65536 files in root
directory. What are the native limits?

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