Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757689AbZF0Bsl (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:48:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754463AbZF0Bsa (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:48:30 -0400 Received: from mail.parknet.ad.jp ([210.171.162.6]:40890 "EHLO mail.officemail.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751746AbZF0Bs3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:48:29 -0400 From: OGAWA Hirofumi To: tridge@samba.org Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , john.lanza@linux.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Kleikamp , Steve French , Mingming Cao , Paul McKenney Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added CONFIG_VFAT_FS_DUALNAMES option References: <19013.8005.541836.436991@samba.org> <4A45405A.1010404@zytor.com> <19013.18894.749105.721881@samba.org> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:48:25 +0900 In-Reply-To: <19013.18894.749105.721881@samba.org> (tridge@samba.org's message of "Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:21:02 +1000") Message-ID: <87k52yzbti.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Anti-Virus: Kaspersky Anti-Virus for MailServers 5.5.10/RELEASE, bases: 24052007 #308098, status: clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1290 Lines: 33 tridge@samba.org 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 -- 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/