Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755240AbZGUKcK (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:32:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754967AbZGUKcI (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:32:08 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:51277 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754802AbZGUKcF (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:32:05 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:31:59 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Boaz Harrosh Cc: tridge@samba.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alan Cox , James Bottomley , Martin Steigerwald , Jan Engelhardt , Theodore Tso , Rusty Russell , john.lanza@linux.com, OGAWA Hirofumi , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Kleikamp , corbet@lwn.net, jcm@jonmasters.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: CONFIG_VFAT_FS_DUALNAMES regressions Message-ID: <20090721103158.GG4133@elf.ucw.cz> References: <19028.3736.892828.352905@samba.org> <20090708110451.1092afa7@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <1247066878.4159.153.camel@mulgrave.site> <20090708163736.0f98e7e0@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <1247069202.4159.212.camel@mulgrave.site> <20090708171848.21633768@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <873a96a23x.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> <87hbxhwv0j.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> <19045.14307.658887.752950@samba.org> <4A65875D.7030902@panasas.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A65875D.7030902@panasas.com> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 996 Lines: 22 > > - Similarly, there is a small chance that chkdsk on Windows will > > rename one file in a directory if they happen to have the same 11 > > byte dummy values. The probability of this happening is > > approximately 80x lower than with the previous patch. > > > > What if we had a user mode utility that does these short-names > renames that a user can optionally run after umount? since it > only writes the (random) short-names it's also safe. Actually, why not having dosfsck creating _matching_ short names for long names? As it only writes short names, it should be safe :-). Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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/