Re: CONFIG_VFAT_FS_DUALNAMES regressions

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Monday 2009-07-06 20:55, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>How did things go with your mp3 players?
>[...]
>As it stands, my two devices always want a valid 8.3 name.

On or about June 26, James Bottomley exchanged these words to Andrew Tridgell:
>So the patch has been tested with Vista, Windows 7 and Windows XP


Vista, 7... nothing special.

So let me fill in.

Windows 98 can't make anything of the stunted vfat entries either[3],
and there's blanks for 16-bit programs[4]. They too, it seems, always
want an 8.3 entry in any case.
It does not crash, but neither of these results is usable.

This dualnames patch just won't fly in practice.


[3] http://picpaste.de/w98dualnames.png
[4] http://picpaste.de/xpwith16bit.png
(pics kept for 7 days from now)
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