Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote:
>
> > Alexander Viro wrote:
> >
> > > Sigh... OK, I really need more coffee. Let me put it that way: this
> > > behaviour (names migrating as the result of operation on different names)
> > > has really nasty implications. On VFAT we had it due to short names. Your
> > > proposal on NTFS promises the same sort of fun. Experience from dealing
> > > with the shortname problems on VFAT makes me rather unhappy about your
> > > proposal.
> >
> > AFAIK, NTFS also supports "short names." Ug. Lee.
>
> I dearly hope that SAMBA will be able to live without them (that, IIRC,
> was the reason to keep them on VFAT).
All-NT systems don't use them; only 9x. So if
you're serving to all NT clients, no problem.
That won't be the case for several years at least,
though. I don't know if Samba could do its own
name mangling to make up for a lack of it in Linux
NTFS or not.
I imagine David Cutler wanted to gnaw his own
fingers off when putting name mangling into NTFS...
DOS compatibility for VMS... yum. I mean, barf.
-M
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