From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Allow root to choose vfat policy to UTF8
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 09:38:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040624073858.GA17435@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
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Hi,
Right now the kernel detects the sysadmin trying to set the iocharset of
vfat to UTF8 and prevents this with an error. While I can see that this is
not recommended, enforcing this is policy that probably doesn't belong in
the kernel. The patch below makes this situation a warning and a
recommendation instead of a strong blockage.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=126641
is an example of a sysadmin disliking this policy enforcement.
Greetings,
Arjan van de Ven
--- linux-2.6.7/fs/fat/inode.c~ 2004-06-24 11:20:43.941750760 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.7/fs/fat/inode.c 2004-06-24 11:20:43.943750521 +0200
@@ -499,9 +499,8 @@
}
/* UTF8 doesn't provide FAT semantics */
if (!strcmp(opts->iocharset, "utf8")) {
- printk(KERN_ERR "FAT: utf8 is not a valid IO charset"
- " for FAT filesystems\n");
- return -EINVAL;
+ printk(KERN_ERR "FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset"
+ " for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!\n");
}
if (opts->unicode_xlate)
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next reply other threads:[~2004-06-24 7:39 UTC|newest]
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2004-06-24 7:38 Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2004-06-24 14:39 ` Allow root to choose vfat policy to UTF8 OGAWA Hirofumi
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