Re: VFAT kernel considerations

[q-funk@megacom.net (Martin-Eric Racine)]

 >Please note: the new xfs is not a VFAT xfs. It is a FAT based filesystem 
 >that also support (optionally and configurable) Microsoft's VFAT 
 >extension and FAT32.

Ermm.. I thought the new filesstem was fully integrated into the 
kernel (where it belongs, IMHO, since it's a TOSFS replacement)?

 >> 2) The good ol' GEMDOS/MiNT case conversion rule.
 >> 
 >>    Since enabling VFAT on A, I notice files are always written as
 >>    lowercase, even though I might have copied from a TOSFS drive.
 >
 >That make your desktop.

Say that again?  That has nothing to do with the desktop.

Try "cp /c/newdesk.inf /a/newdesk.inf" and you get a case
conversion automatically, even though the original file
was uppercase.

It really is a questionable GEMDOS case conversion rule.


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