tridge@xxxxxxxxx writes: > hpa wrote: > > However, as such it really should be paired with a "don't even recognize > > the shortname if a longname exists" option. > > Right, we could just skip the 8.3 name matching and go straight to the > longname match in fat_search_long(). I wonder if anyone ever relies on > the 8.3 matching when a file has a long name on Linux? Wine or such is using it. > > It's also questionable IMO if this shouldn't be another FAT superdriver, > > just as we have VFAT, MS-DOS etc. we could have "purevfat". > > It would be only a few lines of code difference between the two > drivers - is it worth the maintainence overhead of splitting it up? > > Maybe a mount option to ignore 8.3 names for files with long names > would be better? Perhaps even the default? It sounds like to be start of yet another UMSDOS with minimal one. I wouldn't like to repeat UMSDOS history, i.e. I think it needs real users and developers. If not, I wouldn't like to add. Thanks. -- OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- 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
