On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 04:56:30PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote: >> Well, VFAT was in Windows for Workgroups 3.11 or so, back in 1982, and a patent > > VFAT was introduced in Windows 95. OS/2 had it's own long filename > extensions longe before as did Linux (umsdos) Yes, Christoph is correct we did implement long file name support long ago in OS/2. OS/2 long filenames for FAT were stored as the .LONGFILE extended attribute. With extended attribute emulation on vfat a similar approach could be used, although presumably with different ondisk format for "EA DATA. SF" system file (which stores extended attributes). If anyone is interested in more detail on this (probably would be boring to most), we can explain the details. -- Thanks, Steve -- 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
