Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754761AbZGFUg5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jul 2009 16:36:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755365AbZGFUgm (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jul 2009 16:36:42 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:60414 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755357AbZGFUgl (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jul 2009 16:36:41 -0400 Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 22:36:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: tridge@samba.org cc: OGAWA Hirofumi , Theodore Tso , Alan Cox , Rusty Russell , Pavel Machek , john.lanza@linux.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Kleikamp , corbet@lwn.net, jcm@jonmasters.org, James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com Subject: Re: CONFIG_VFAT_FS_DUALNAMES regressions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <19013.8005.541836.436991@samba.org> <20090630063102.GB1351@ucw.cz> <200907012019.53932.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <20090701122558.3a7c80d3@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090701140503.GA21185@mit.edu> <19021.19842.663727.146474@samba.org> <87hbxu60qm.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> <19021.23231.213863.726785@samba.org> <19021.26102.80885.330380@samba.org> <19021.31291.642416.956966@samba.org> <19021.63615.450348.192109@samba.org> <19025.63119.656216.431469@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: 998 Lines: 30 On Monday 2009-07-06 20:55, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>How did things go with your mp3 players? >[...] >As it stands, my two devices always want a valid 8.3 name. On or about June 26, James Bottomley exchanged these words to Andrew Tridgell: >So the patch has been tested with Vista, Windows 7 and Windows XP Vista, 7... nothing special. So let me fill in. Windows 98 can't make anything of the stunted vfat entries either[3], and there's blanks for 16-bit programs[4]. They too, it seems, always want an 8.3 entry in any case. It does not crash, but neither of these results is usable. This dualnames patch just won't fly in practice. [3] http://picpaste.de/w98dualnames.png [4] http://picpaste.de/xpwith16bit.png (pics kept for 7 days from now) -- 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/