Re: Bug#333776: linux-2.6: vfat driver in 2.6.12 is not properly case-insensitive

From: OGAWA Hirofumi
Date: Sat Oct 29 2005 - 15:07:53 EST


Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> Probably, yes. I think we need to know on-disk filename's code set.
>
> If FAT stores the filenames in 8 bits (non-UTF) then yes, it will be in
> the current locale/code page of the Windows system writing them (e.g. that
> happens with the names of EAs in NTFS).
>
> If the names are stored in 16-bit Unicode like on NTFS then obviously they
> are completely locale/code page independent. (Makes my life in NTFS a
> _lot_ easier. Especially since the NTFS volume contains an upcase table
> for the full 16-bit Unicode which we load and use to do upcasing for the
> case insensitive comparisons...)

Yes, I got to know it from fs/ntfs/*. :) Unfortunately, FAT stores
8/16bits codeset filename always. (Unicode (UCS2?) is stored in only
case of longname.)

Thanks.
--
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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