Kernel support for VFAT long-filenames in 1.3 kernels?

lilo (TaRDiS@mail.utexas.edu)
Mon, 2 Oct 1995 16:24:33 -0500 (CDT)


Probably worth passing on....

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Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 10:08:24 -0400
From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
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On Mon, 2 Oct 1995, Craig Goodrich wrote:

> Just to change the subject (it's about time), anybody have any
> late bulletins on support for the so-called VFAT long-file-name
> structure in Linux?

There are kernel patches and a new mtools avaialble on sunsite which handle
this. I assume the patches will be folded into the 1.3 kernels.

Erik

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