On Tuesday 2009-07-21 11:16, Boaz Harrosh wrote: >> - Similarly, there is a small chance that chkdsk on Windows will >> rename one file in a directory if they happen to have the same 11 >> byte dummy values. The probability of this happening is >> approximately 80x lower than with the previous patch. > >What if we had a user mode utility that does these short-names >renames that a user can optionally run after umount? since it >only writes the (random) short-names it's also safe. Mm, user-mode. tridgefat could trigger a usermode process at open(2) time to rebuild the short name with traditional semantics to counter the 'breakage' induced by random 8.3 names. -- 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
