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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option
Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 13:47:57 -0400
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On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 12:41:29PM -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> From: Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>
> Subject: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option
> 
> When this option is enabled the VFAT filesystem will refuse to create
> new files with long names. Accessing existing files with long names
> will continue to work.
> 
> File names to be created must conform to the 8.3 format.  Mixed case is
> not allowed in either the prefix or the suffix.

This doesn't make any sense as a compile time option. Might make sense
as a mount option, but I'd like to hear a rationale for it first.