From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754795AbZEBKSN (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 May 2009 06:18:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752171AbZEBKR4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 May 2009 06:17:56 -0400 Received: from mail.parknet.ad.jp ([210.171.162.6]:60211 "EHLO mail.officemail.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751541AbZEBKRz (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 May 2009 06:17:55 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 480 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sat, 02 May 2009 06:17:55 EDT From: OGAWA Hirofumi To: Dave Kleikamp Cc: Andrew Tridgell , Steve French , Mingming Cao , Paul McKenney , LKML , linux-fsdevel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option References: <1241199689.13073.6.camel@norville.austin.ibm.com> Date: Sat, 02 May 2009 19:09:49 +0900 In-Reply-To: <1241199689.13073.6.camel@norville.austin.ibm.com> (Dave Kleikamp's message of "Fri, 01 May 2009 12:41:29 -0500") Message-ID: <87fxfnbytu.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.92 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Anti-Virus: Kaspersky Anti-Virus for MailServers 5.5.10/RELEASE, bases: 24052007 #308098, status: clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dave Kleikamp writes: > Subject: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option > > When this option is enabled the VFAT filesystem will refuse to create > new files with long names. Accessing existing files with long names > will continue to work. > > File names to be created must conform to the 8.3 format. Mixed case is > not allowed in either the prefix or the suffix. I'll answer to only technical part. This patch creates different name internally, without renaming dcache. Are you really sure if that's ok? Thanks. -- OGAWA Hirofumi