Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261888AbVC3N0M (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Mar 2005 08:26:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261887AbVC3N0M (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Mar 2005 08:26:12 -0500 Received: from justchat.medium.net ([83.120.2.52]:2205 "EHLO smtp.mail.service.medium.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261888AbVC3N0H (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Mar 2005 08:26:07 -0500 Message-ID: <424AA8E8.1020008@baldauf.org> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:26:00 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Xu=E2n_Baldauf?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041122 X-Accept-Language: de-de, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OGAWA Hirofumi CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: vfat: why is shortname=lower the default? References: <4249BB5C.5000102@baldauf.org> <871x9xs2fy.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> In-Reply-To: <871x9xs2fy.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Score: -4.5 (----) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1486 Lines: 45 OGAWA Hirofumi wrote: >Xu?n Baldauf writes: > > > >>Why is shortname=lower the default mount option for vfat filesystems? >>Because, with "shortname=lower", copying one FAT32 filesystem tree to >>another FAT32 filesystem tree using Liux results in semantically >>different filesystems. (E.g.: Filenames which were once "all >>uppercase" are now "all lowercase"). >> >> > >The reason is only it's very long-standing behavior. When this >behavior was changed before, it seems an one user was confused at >least. > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=97041869500002&r=1&w=2 > >Personally I agree that "winnt" or "mixed" is proper. > >However, if we want to change the default behavior, it would need to >be tested for some months, and if anyone has no objection it can >change I think. > > One could make a slow transition, starting now with a warning like "vfat: warning: You are using "shortname=lower" as default. This may not be what you want. This default will change to "shortname=mixed" after 2005-07-01." if the shortname behaviour is not explicitly selected. >Thanks. > > ciao, Xu?n. :-) P.S.: I'm now trying to recover about 4M files from "lost case"... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/