On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 13:47 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 12:41:29PM -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > > From: Andrew Tridgell <tridge@xxxxxxxxx> > > Subject: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option > > > > When this option is enabled the VFAT filesystem will refuse to create > > new files with long names. Accessing existing files with long names > > will continue to work. > > > > File names to be created must conform to the 8.3 format. Mixed case is > > not allowed in either the prefix or the suffix. > > This doesn't make any sense as a compile time option. Might make sense > as a mount option, but I'd like to hear a rationale for it first. Some linux-based devices would be happy not to contain code to create the long name at all. Thanks, Shaggy -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
