Re: [PATCH] Added CONFIG_VFAT_FS_DUALNAMES option

[H. Peter Anvin]

Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> But ... it was, and there is still possibility of just using position
> in directory to avoid collisions completely.

I was just going to ask this.  Rather than using a random number, we
should use something based on the position in the directory, and I
suspect we should still verify that it is unique (since some FAT
implementation may garbage-collect the directory thereby moving the offset.)

	-hpa

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