OGAWA Hirofumi writes: > Um.., probably, this patch would be handle the invalid chars for 8.3 alias. > Otherwise, it'll try to create ~<num> postfix, and I guess it'll become > the dcache problem. Do you think that will cause problems? If it will, then we could add something like this after the vfat_create_shortname() call: if (strncasecmp(name, msdos_name, MSDOS_NAME) != 0) { err = -EINVAL; goto out_free; } or would the potential case change still be a problem? Cheers, Tridge -- 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