Douglas McClendon wrote:
Is it really worth supporting msdos-nonvfat filesystems? Is any stick that isn't meant to be capable of holding an mp3 with a beyond 8.3 filename really worth supporting? Do sticks/cards often come preformatted that way? ( maybe they do... :( )
I just tested what I thought was the case- you can have disk fdisk-ed as non-vfat msdos (6 - fat16), then mkfs.msdos it, then mount it as vfat, and all is well. Is there a case when that can't be relied on? I.e. perhaps when it isn't linux doing the mkfs.msdos?
The case you mentioned was for osmin.squashfs.img->osmin.img. Assuming vfat can be relied upon(??), I can see that maybe having value before we move it under /LiveOS. But once under /LiveOS it seems reasonable to stick with the nice long intuitive/descriptive filenames. And thus in the rare case that that subdir is perused when mounted non-vfat, it's just OK that it clearly has stuff with long filenames that has been converted to the ugly dos 8.3 version.
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