> 1. The names PIPE, $CLOCK, and NETQ are reserved as special device file names for some versions of DOS and Win95 and can get folks into trouble if you allow linux to create these names.
Isn't only PIPE, $CLOCK and NETQ, vfat have a huge list of special file
names, the arrays reserved*_names defines this and the functions
vfat_valid_* uses this (namei.c). But as Alan says, this can be very util
to fixing problems in vfat partitions mounting them on Linux.
-- Augusto Cesar Radtke Sekure SDI http://www.sekure.org
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