Re: CONFIG_VFAT_FS_DUALNAMES regressions

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Tue Jul 21 2009 - 17:37:26 EST


Hi!

> > Actually, why not having dosfsck creating _matching_ short names for
> > long names? As it only writes short names, it should be safe :-).
>
> As I mentioned to Boaz, what usually matters for claim construction in
> patents is the overall system. I'm sure John Lanza would be happy to
> run through it with you if you want a more legally detailed answer,
> but basically breaking it up within the one system isn't likely to
> help us.

Hehe, or we could create just long names and mark filesystem as
"needing repair" so that Windows fixes it up for us on next mount ;-).
Pavel

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