Re: Linux 2.6.8-rc3

[Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>]

On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 02:07:20PM +0200, Jan De Luyck wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 August 2004 00:09, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > It would be good if people only sent serious stuff for a while, and we can
> > do a real 2.6.8, ok?
> 
> Works like a charm, only one comment:
> 
> Mounting my vfat partitions gave me this error:
> 
> FAT: codepage or iocharset option didn't specified
>      File name can not access proper (mounted as read-only)
> 
> which was easily fixed by supplying a iocharset= mount option. But according 
> to the man page of mount:
> 
>        iocharset=value
>               Character set to use for converting between 8 bit characters and
>               16 bit Unicode characters. The default is iso8859-1.  Long file-
>               names are stored on disk in Unicode format.
> 
> the default is iso8859-1. Has this default gone haywire somewhere?

Yes, it's in the hidden in the ChangeLog. You can find it if you know
iocharset is the same as nls:

  Hirofumi Ogawa:
    o FAT: kill nls default


Erik

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