Hi Pavel, > Hehe, or we could create just long names and mark filesystem as > "needing repair" so that Windows fixes it up for us on next mount ;-). Adding short names on the windows side would be a valid patent workaround I believe, but I'm not sure that forcing a chkdsk is a very useful way to do that. The current windows chkdsk chooses .--N as the filename, for integer N. It doesn't base the added short name on the long name. Paul and I also looked into the option of adding a autorun file of some sort when files are written on the Linux side, so that a windows tool adds 8.3 names when the media is inserted. It doesn't turn out to be very practical however, partly because so many windows systems don't have auto-run enabled and it looks like MS is disabling it in future versions. This solution also doesn't work for all the other FAT devices out there (MP3 players, photo frames etc). 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
