From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Frodo Looijaard <frodol@dds.nl>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-7110-psion@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: PATCH to access old-style FAT fs
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 14:49:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40198DE0.307@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040129223944.GA673@frodo.local>
Frodo Looijaard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have attached a newer, better behaving version of my patch:
> * Implements new mount option oldfat for FAT-derived filesystems.
> * Stops scanning dirs when DIR_Name[0] = 0 when oldfat is set
> * Writes a 0 to the next entry DIR_Name[0] when overwriting an entry
> which has DIR_Name[0] = 0 when oldfat is set
>
Please don't call this "oldfat". There is nothing about this which is
"old-style"; it's a workaround for a bug in a specific OS.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-29 22:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-26 17:39 PATCH to access old-style FAT fs Frodo Looijaard
2004-01-26 19:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-27 12:55 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2004-01-27 18:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-27 20:17 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2004-01-28 11:56 ` Frodo Looijaard
2004-01-28 20:08 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2004-01-28 20:24 ` Frodo Looijaard
2004-01-28 21:01 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2004-01-29 10:56 ` Frodo Looijaard
2004-01-31 2:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-31 17:19 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2004-01-29 22:39 ` Frodo Looijaard
2004-01-29 22:49 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2004-01-30 0:30 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-30 3:40 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2004-02-01 14:51 ` Frodo Looijaard
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