Re: Msdos name alias patch for 2.1.48

Stephen R. van den Berg (srb@cuci.nl)
Fri, 8 Aug 1997 11:51:42 +0200

Steffen Grunewald wrote:
>"Stephen R. van den Berg writes"
>|> Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but as far as I know, NTFS allows for
>|> completely arbitrary equivalence tables (in Unicode).

>So does this mean that the interpretation of a removable disk's NTFS
>depends on the host it is mounted to ?!?!?
>Or will there be a "TRANS.TBL" like file somewhere in the NTFS itself
>(if so, how is it named if every character could be re-defined ?)

The "TRANS.TBL" is embedded in the filesystem-metadata (superblock, if you
will) somewhere, if I recall correctly. It needs to be read at mount
time.

-- 
Sincerely,                                                          srb@cuci.nl
           Stephen R. van den Berg (AKA BuGless).


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