Re: [PATCH] Added CONFIG_VFAT_FS_DUALNAMES option

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 11:42:39 +1000
tridge@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Hi Alan,
> 
>  > > There really was no such thing as "vfat" anyway.  VFAT in the Windows
>  > 
>  > In the eyes of the end user there is such a thing as vfat. This is about
>  > expectations not technical issues.
> 
> Do you have an example of an end user device that would be affected by
> this change, and which is never distributed in any of the countries
> where a varient of this patent exists?

You gave one: Microsoft Windows XP. Risk of very rare system crashes.

Thats enough in a high reliability environment to require the file system
in question is banned from use site wide at may locations. Can't have a
flash card bringing down a windows dependant US destroyer can they.

Getting "not vfat" by suprise is thus really really bad
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