Re: CONFIG_VFAT_FS_DUALNAMES regressions

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Mon Jul 06 2009 - 07:41:02 EST



On Friday 2009-07-03 14:24, tridge@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>Hi Jan,
>
> > Right. That in itself is fine, but I'd still like to have readdir
> > return lowercase names here then.
>
>you are in luck!

Dunno.
(It finally turns Monday...)

>I include it below. Can you please test it? It should be applied on
>top of the previous patch. Note that you will not need to specify
>shortname=winnt. In fact, if you don't specify any special options and
>let the kernel default then you will get the behaviour you just
>described.

With this extra patch:

* "cp dscf4160.jpg dscf3010.jpg" works

* "cp dscf4160.jpg dscF3011.jpg" does not work - i.e. cam ignores the
file without error.
Reason for that is that dscF3011 has an illegal 8.3 name
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