Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 12:18:36 -0400 From: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <Alex.Kovalenko@verizon.net> To: Ulrich Spoerlein <uspoerlein@gmail.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: msdosfs: VFAT support on FAT16 filesystems? Message-ID: <1158423516.946.2.camel@RabbitsDen> In-Reply-To: <20060910191751.GA2271@roadrunner.buck.local> References: <20060910191751.GA2271@roadrunner.buck.local>
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On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 21:17 +0200, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: > Hi current@, > > I own a crappy MP3-Stick that requires a FAT16 filesystem. The big > problem is that FreeBSD truncates all files created on that filesystem > to 8.3 characters. You can imagine that this sucks, if you're trying to > copy several MP3s by the same artist to a directory on the disk. > > The question is thus, why does it do that? I think this used to work > just fine in the 5.x line. > > "What happen?" > > Ulrich Spoerlein RabbitsDen# mount -t msdos -o longnames /dev/da0s1 /mnt RabbitsDen# ls -l /mnt ls: ???????: Invalid argument total 48 drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 16384 Sep 5 09:46 .Trash-sunny drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 16384 Sep 15 15:43 KIPELOV drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 16384 Sep 10 10:20 Pictures RabbitsDen# touch '/mnt/This is one long name with spaces' RabbitsDen# ls -l /mnt ls: ???????: Invalid argument total 48 drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 16384 Sep 5 09:46 .Trash-sunny drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 16384 Sep 15 15:43 KIPELOV drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 16384 Sep 10 10:20 Pictures -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Sep 16 12:17 This is one long name with spaces RabbitsDen# umount /mnt ... or am I missing something? -- Alexandre Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)
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