> .. at least , this is is an argument against "we don't need umsdos since we have VFAT".
> Is the cause of this the fact that windoze can not deal wit such names ?
> ( it reports file not found for those entries , but they are listed in the explorer )
Looks like you have old kernel :-)) At least with 2.1.128 you could not
(correctly) create file with name "a." or "a..". There are was error in 2.0.33
(my last 2.0.x version :-) and you could create "a.." with `touch a....`
command, etc. Such names are not allowed by VFAT ! But this is not even
biggest problem with VFAT. It's simple brain-dead system -- that's all. Try:
-- cut --
[root@localhost vfattest]# touch XXXXXXXXX
[root@localhost vfattest]# touch XXXXXX~1
touch: XXXXXX~1: File exists
[root@localhost vfattest]# rm XXXXXX~1
rm: XXXXXX~1: No such file or directory
[root@localhost vfattest]# rm -rf XXXXXX~1
[root@localhost vfattest]# ls -al < Compare
total 20 < this...
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 9 23:07 . <
drwxr-xr-x 49 root root 16384 Nov 9 23:07 .. <
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Nov 9 23:07 XXXXXXXXX <
[root@localhost vfattest]# mkdir XXXXXX~1 <
mkdir: cannot make directory XXXXXX~1: File exists <
[root@localhost vfattest]# ls -al <
total 20 <
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 9 23:07 . <
drwxr-xr-x 49 root root 16384 Nov 9 23:07 .. <
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Nov 9 23:07 XXXXXXXXX <
[root@localhost vfattest]# rm XXXXXXXXX
rm: remove XXXXXXXXX? y
[root@localhost vfattest]# touch XXXXXX~1
[root@localhost vfattest]# touch XXXXXXXXX
[root@localhost vfattest]# rm XXXXXX~1
rm: remove XXXXXX~1? y
[root@localhost vfattest]# ls -al < ...with
total 20 < that!
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 9 23:21 . <
drwxr-xr-x 49 root root 16384 Jan 1 1970 .. <
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Nov 9 23:19 XXXXXXXXX <
[root@localhost vfattest]# mkdir XXXXXX~1 <
[root@localhost vfattest]# ls -al <
total 24 <
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 9 23:21 . <
drwxr-xr-x 49 root root 16384 Jan 1 1970 .. <
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Nov 9 23:19 XXXXXXXXX <
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 9 23:21 XXXXXX~1 <
[root@localhost vfattest]#
-- cut --
And no, this is NOT error in VFAT driver -- it was designed to be braind-dead
by M$ and of course it is brain-dead even in Linux....
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