Have you tried to play with the mount options -L and -D described in mount_msdos(8)? I haven't tried myself, but could be worth a shot.
Cheers, Max On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 10:43 PM Mike Zhang <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a bunch of files with unicode filenames that I'm trying to copy onto > an MSDOS mount and what ends up happening is I get a bunch of invalid nodes > that cannot be accessed in any way, including rm -rf /mymountpt/dir. This > seems to be because mount_msdos is trying to be too smart for its own good > and convert character sets in a way that apparently results in invalid > filenames sometimes. I am using -L en_US.UTF-8 -D UTF-8 to mount the fs. > > I've already had to wipe the FAT table, re-newfs and restore from backup on > OpenBSD because there was no other way to get rid of the invalid nodes (the > nodes created by DragonFly are undeleteable even on OpenBSD). As far as > I'm > aware, OpenBSD's mount_msdos treats each filename as a raw char *, to be > passed through byte for byte without regard to charsets or code pages or > what have you. This is exactly the behavior I'm looking for. > > So my question is, is there any way to force raw, unconverted filenames on > DragonFly? I'd like to be able to use this thing on all my boxen without > resorting to silliness like NFS exporting it from OpenBSD. > > Mike > >
