Re: Allow root to choose vfat policy to UTF8

[OGAWA Hirofumi]

Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> --- linux-2.6.7/fs/fat/inode.c~	2004-06-24 11:20:43.941750760 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6.7/fs/fat/inode.c	2004-06-24 11:20:43.943750521 +0200
> @@ -499,9 +499,8 @@
>  	}
>  	/* UTF8 doesn't provide FAT semantics */
>  	if (!strcmp(opts->iocharset, "utf8")) {
> -		printk(KERN_ERR "FAT: utf8 is not a valid IO charset"
> -		       " for FAT filesystems\n");
> -		return -EINVAL;
> +		printk(KERN_ERR "FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset"
> +		       " for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!\n");
>  	}

Umm.. why don't use "iocharset=<xxx>,utf8" instead?  This is less
unsatisfactory than it option.

Would we still need it? If we still need, I think patch should be applied.
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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