> > Apperently the VFAT needs some more cleaning, I imagine when perfect the
> > short names will have no effect what so ever if the filesystem is mounted
> > as a VFAT partiton, the only way you'll be able to do anything with them
> > is with the SAMBA ioctls.
>
> Some @#$^ing programs apparently want to be able to access the files via
> short names.
>
> > The problem with linuxlfnbk (or rather I imagine it'd be a shortname backup)
> > is how do you restore the data ? There's no way to control the short name
> > VFAT uses is there ?
>
> As much as I hate such 'solutions' - add an ioctl() for munge-changing.
> Yes, adding ioctls stinks. But it's less PITA then playing games with
> dcache and screwing VFS for the sake of braindead monstrosity.
>
> > Possibility (3)
> > Ignore it, it's a windows problem :-) :-)
> >
> > (Scheesh! All these hoops just for gui-dos! :-) )
>
> Sounds fine with me.
>
>
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