From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261339AbVBGV7z (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2005 16:59:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261340AbVBGV7z (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2005 16:59:55 -0500 Received: from relay.axxeo.de ([213.239.199.237]:62933 "EHLO relay.axxeo.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261339AbVBGV7y convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2005 16:59:54 -0500 From: Ingo Oeser To: Michelle Konzack Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: msdos/vfat defaults are annoying Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 22:59:46 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 Cc: Linux Kernel ML References: <4205AC37.3030301@comcast.net> <20050207084709.GA30680@ojjektum.uhulinux.hu> <20050207125353.GK12705@freenet.de> In-Reply-To: <20050207125353.GK12705@freenet.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200502072259.46602.ioe-lkml@axxeo.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Michelle Konzack schrieb: > Am 2005-02-07 09:47:09, schrieb Pozsár Balázs: > > See? I _have_ that patch applied, that's why it tried vfat and not msdos > > first. > > With this, you will nerver mount a Filesystem "msdos". > > Because "vfat" IS "msdos" + "lfn". > > You can attach to ALL "msdos" media "lfn" and you will have "vfat". So msdos is vfat WITHOUT lfn, which is a a restriction like noatime or mounting ext3 as ext2. That's why the default should be vfat indeed and the restriction should be "nolfn", which will not allow lfns to be created and is what you actually intend, right? But this will break API today, so it should be added to list of features that will change. Regards Ingo Oeser