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Date:   Tue, 21 Jan 2020 21:36:25 +0000
From:   Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
To:     Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
Cc:     OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
        Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...il.com>,
        Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com>
Subject: Re: vfat: Broken case-insensitive support for UTF-8

On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 09:34:05PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:

> This is a great idea to get FAT equivalence classes. Thank you!
> 
> Now I quickly tried it... and it failed. FAT has restriction for number
> of files in a directory, so I would have to do it in more clever way,
> e.g prepare N directories and then try to create/open file for each
> single-point string in every directory until it success or fail in every
> one.

IIRC, the limitation in root directory was much harder than in
subdirectories...  Not sure, though - it had been a long time since
I had to touch *FAT for any reasons...

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