Re: PATCH to access old-style FAT fs

[H. Peter Anvin]

Frodo Looijaard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have attached a newer, better behaving version of my patch:
>   * Implements new mount option oldfat for FAT-derived filesystems.
>   * Stops scanning dirs when DIR_Name[0] = 0 when oldfat is set
>   * Writes a 0 to the next entry DIR_Name[0] when overwriting an entry
>     which has DIR_Name[0] = 0 when oldfat is set
> 

Please don't call this "oldfat".  There is nothing about this which is
"old-style"; it's a workaround for a bug in a specific OS.

	-hpa

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