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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option
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On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 04:56:30PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> Well, VFAT was in Windows for Workgroups 3.11 or so, back in 1982, and a patent

VFAT was introduced in Windows 95.  OS/2 had it's own long filename
extensions longe before as did Linux (umsdos)