On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 05:17:44PM -0600, Paul Hartman wrote:
> In the 2.6.32 kernel ChangeLog this is the only thing that looks to
> address it, and if anything it sounds like it should be the opposite
> of your problem (fixing it instead of causing it)... weird. Maybe try
> to add shortname=mixed to your mount options in case something in your
> system has it set otherwise.
>
> commit 955234755ce4a2c33cfc558912aa8f2148cc1fc6
> Author: Paul Wise <[email protected]>
> Date: Sat Aug 1 21:30:31 2009 +0900
>
> vfat: change the default from shortname=lower to shortname=mixed
No, that just might explain it. I'll reboot tomorrow under 2.6.31 and
if the problem persists, then it is probably something like udev or
who knows what. But if it was mounted as "lower" and now "mixed",
that would explain why I see the change. I remember the DOS systems
always being upper case, so the "lower" default would have lowered
them to what I was used to seeing, while the new "mixed" would have
preserved their teletypeness that I now see.
I looked quickly on lwn back thru Oct 1 and found nothing similar to
what I remember, so I will quit searching. There was some kerfuffle
about crippling some feature under some circumstances, trying to make
VFAT do 99%f off what it should but not 100%, so it couldn't be claimed
as a patent violation. There was some mention of this being related
to TomTom settling a patent lawsuit with Microsoft. I think the
change note you found is more likely the cause, and I will report
tomorrow on this.
Thanks for looking for this, BTW. I didn't think it was worth being
that ambitious :-)
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