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Message-ID: <20090721103158.GG4133@elf.ucw.cz>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:31:59 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>
Cc: tridge@...ba.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
Martin Steigerwald <Martin@...htvoll.de>,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>,
Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, john.lanza@...ux.com,
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>,
linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, corbet@....net,
jcm@...masters.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: CONFIG_VFAT_FS_DUALNAMES regressions
> > - 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
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