linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH

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Message-ID: <87ws8zak1m.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp>
Date:	Sat, 02 May 2009 19:14:29 +0900
From:	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
To:	Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Andrew Tridgell <tridge@...ba.org>,
	Steve French <sfrench@...ibm.com>,
	Mingming Cao <cmm@...ibm.com>,
	Paul McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option

OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp> writes:

> Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>
>> Subject: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option
>>
>> When this option is enabled the VFAT filesystem will refuse to create
>> new files with long names. Accessing existing files with long names
>> will continue to work.
>>
>> File names to be created must conform to the 8.3 format.  Mixed case is
>> not allowed in either the prefix or the suffix.
>
> I'll answer to only technical part. This patch creates different name
> internally, without renaming dcache. Are you really sure if that's ok?

Ah, sorry. I'm missing (is_shortname == 0) part.
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
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