Re: vfat: Broken case-insensitive support for UTF-8

From: Al Viro
Date: Tue Jan 21 2020 - 16:36:34 EST


On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 09:34:05PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:

> This is a great idea to get FAT equivalence classes. Thank you!
>
> Now I quickly tried it... and it failed. FAT has restriction for number
> of files in a directory, so I would have to do it in more clever way,
> e.g prepare N directories and then try to create/open file for each
> single-point string in every directory until it success or fail in every
> one.

IIRC, the limitation in root directory was much harder than in
subdirectories... Not sure, though - it had been a long time since
I had to touch *FAT for any reasons...