> How about a magic file in each VFAT directory which contains mappings of
> long to short filenames. You only see the long names using standard UNIX
> file I/O. Then backups work, because you backup the magic file too, so a
> restore will put the correct short/long mappings back.
>
> To make this work the mapping "file" (more like a proc entry really) can
> have entries which don't correspond to existing files yet. If you create
> a longfilename which has an existing entry, it uses that short name. Now
> restores work and preserve both of the original short and long names.
>
> The magic file must of course be something which interacts directly with
> the VFAT filesystem driver. It isn't a real file, it's a set of hints to
> VFAT on how to handle open/creat/rename/unlink on long filenames. It may
> need very strange rules governing how read/write interacts with it.
Sigh... Time to newgroup alt.tasteless.l-k and redirect such threads
there.
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