Re: [PATCH] Speeding up FAT operations

Jukka Tapani Santala (e75644@UWasa.Fi)
Tue, 22 Sep 1998 18:20:17 +0300 (EET DST)


On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> GACK! IBM changed the rules before Microsoft did: "EA DATA. SF", a
> "placeholder" for EA clusters which OS/2 allocates to files. I suggest that
> you do indeed need to deal with embedded spaces....

Actuqlly, I still didn't/don't have time to check if Microsoft did, I
just did 'joe "foo bar"' and Linux was happy to create that file on VFAT,
showing it up as just "foo" in subsequent ls with my initial patch,
leading me to assume it wasn't correct ;> However, it raises an
interesting question about files with names like "foobar "<-space.

> This is for 2.1, right? Follow ASCII rules if there are no codepages
> compiled into the kernel (or otherwise present; can they be modules?),
> otherwise use the existing codepage.

The question isn't as much how to do it, as how to do it _fast_. I was
told I can do completely away with the case-switch without running into
trouble elsewhere, though, so that becomes at least a possibility for
option... depending on whether people like to see the files in uniform
case on VFAT or not.

-Donwulff

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