Hi, I was asked like the following sometimes, Why is shortname=lower the default mount option for vfat filesystems? Because, with "shortname=lower", copying one FAT filesystem tree to another FAT filesystem tree using Liux results in semantically different filesystems. (E.g.: Filenames which were once "all uppercase" are now "all lowercase"). And from recently email http://bugs.debian.org/476903 http://bugs.debian.org/497121 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/554031 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/290362 My usual answer for it is, personally I agree that "winnt" or "mixed" is proper. However, it is long-standing default behavior. Um... But, now, situation would not be same with long past (didn't have shortname= option). Well, so, what do you think about changing the default of vfat from "shortname=lower" to "shortname=mixed"? If default was changed, the shortname (8.3) will not changed to lower case to show. And if possible, it will try to preserve created shortname. Thanks. -- OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> This causes Linux and Windows to display filenames the same. Signed-off-by: Paul Wise <pabs3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt | 2 +- fs/fat/inode.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt index b58b84b..eed520f 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ shortname=lower|win95|winnt|mixed winnt: emulate the Windows NT rule for display/create. mixed: emulate the Windows NT rule for display, emulate the Windows 95 rule for create. - Default setting is `lower'. + Default setting is `mixed'. tz=UTC -- Interpret timestamps as UTC rather than local time. This option disables the conversion of timestamps diff --git a/fs/fat/inode.c b/fs/fat/inode.c index 8970d8c..f9af501 100644 --- a/fs/fat/inode.c +++ b/fs/fat/inode.c @@ -971,7 +971,7 @@ static int parse_options(char *options, int is_vfat, int silent, int *debug, opts->codepage = fat_default_codepage; opts->iocharset = fat_default_iocharset; if (is_vfat) { - opts->shortname = VFAT_SFN_DISPLAY_LOWER|VFAT_SFN_CREATE_WIN95; + opts->shortname = VFAT_SFN_DISPLAY_WINNT|VFAT_SFN_CREATE_WIN95; opts->rodir = 0; } else { opts->shortname = 0; -- 1.6.3.1 -- 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
