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?
