Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757514AbZF0RVU (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:21:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755927AbZF0RVI (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:21:08 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:39915 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754241AbZF0RVH (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:21:07 -0400 Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:21:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: tridge@samba.org cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , OGAWA Hirofumi , john.lanza@linux.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Kleikamp , Steve French , Mingming Cao , Paul McKenney Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added CONFIG_VFAT_FS_DUALNAMES option In-Reply-To: <19013.8005.541836.436991@samba.org> Message-ID: References: <19013.8005.541836.436991@samba.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LSU 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 645 Lines: 15 On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 05:19:33 +1000, tridge@samba.org wrote: > >When VFAT_FS_DUALNAMES is disabled we avoid the creation of 8.3 >short filenames for files on VFAT filesystems that require a long >name. The patch uses a pattern of 11 bytes in the directory entry >which contains invalid characters such that it cannot be considered >to be a valid short filename. Can't we make this a runtime option? -- 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/