linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Added CONFIG_VFAT_FS

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Date:	Thu, 2 Jul 2009 11:33:51 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	tridge@...ba.org
Cc:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>,
	john.lanza@...ux.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Steve French <sfrench@...ibm.com>,
	Mingming Cao <cmm@...ibm.com>,
	Paul McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added CONFIG_VFAT_FS_DUALNAMES option

On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 11:42:39 +1000
tridge@...ba.org wrote:

> Hi Alan,
> 
>  > > There really was no such thing as "vfat" anyway.  VFAT in the Windows
>  > 
>  > In the eyes of the end user there is such a thing as vfat. This is about
>  > expectations not technical issues.
> 
> Do you have an example of an end user device that would be affected by
> this change, and which is never distributed in any of the countries
> where a varient of this patent exists?

You gave one: Microsoft Windows XP. Risk of very rare system crashes.

Thats enough in a high reliability environment to require the file system
in question is banned from use site wide at may locations. Can't have a
flash card bringing down a windows dependant US destroyer can they.

Getting "not vfat" by suprise is thus really really bad
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