Re: [PATCH RFC] vfat and Simon_&_Garfunkel-Wednesday_Morning,_3_a.m.

[Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>]

Hi Ogawa,
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:25:59PM +0200, I wrote:
> Hi Ogawa,
> 
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 07:05:27PM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> > Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be> writes:
> > 
> > > I have an IOMEGA home network hard disk that I can connect either by
> > > ethernet (ftp or cifs) or by USB. Because of the ftp server mode
> > > firmware, I must keep it formatted as a vfat filesystem.
> > >
> > > I have copied my music files on it using the ftp mode.  Using the same
> > > ftp mode, I can also retrieve my music files without problem, and
> > > when I list them, they have the exact names that they had on my linux
> > > ext3 partition.
> > >
> > > When I connected this disk via USB, now relying on the vfat module
> > > of linux, there were some directories that I could not reread.  The
> > > common factor of these directories names is that they end with one or
> > > more dots, e.g.
> > >
> > > 	Simon_&_Garfunkel-Wednesday_Morning,_3_a.m.
> > >
> > > If I issue the `ls' or `find' command, I get this strange message :
> > >
> > > find: ./Simon_&_Garfunkel-Wednesday_Morning,_3_a.m.: No such file or directory
> > >
> > > Adding printk's in `fat_search_long' revealed that on this disk, the
> > > file/directory NAMES ENDING WITH DOTS ARE STORED WITH THEIR TRAILING DOTS.
> > >
> > > Here is a patch sketch that makes accessing my
> > >  Simon_&_Garfunkel-Wednesday_Morning,_3_a.m. directory possible, but I
> > > don't know if storing long filenames ending with dot's should not also
> > > be fixed.
> > 
> > IIRC, Windows stripped the trailing ".". That filename can be read/used on
> > Windows?
> 
> Sorry I don't use MS-Windows.  I'll try to find someone who does.

MS-Windows (XP SP3) lists correctly the names with their trailing dots.

Philippe