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From: Xavier Parizet <xav@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.32 and FAT file names
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:16:13
Message-Id: 4B4759BB.7090007@gentooist.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] 2.6.32 and FAT file names by felix@crowfix.com
1 Le 08/01/2010 17:09, felix@×××××××.com a écrit :
2 > Oh dear. As I read all the stuff about 2.6.32 changing long filename
3 > handling for VFAT filesystems to avoid Microsoft patent problems, I
4 > didn't think it mattered much to me, since I only use FAT when getting
5 > pictures from a camera or USB stick. Now I find that filenames are
6 > all upper case where they weren't before.
7 >
8 > I see a bunch of mount options to use lower case filenames, but what I
9 > would really like to do is restore the old behavior, whatever it was,
10 > with a 2.6.32 kernel. Is there such an option, either building a
11 > kernel or mounting a filesystem?
12
13 For me, plugin-in a FAT formatted usb-key on my system implied mounting it using
14 hal, which implies mount options
15 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,uhelper=hal,shortname=lower,flush,uid=1000) using vfat.
16
17 HTH.
18
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