Re: [PATCH] fat: ignore .. subdir and always add a link to dirs

[OGAWA Hirofumi]

Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 06:10:29AM -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 12:38:43PM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
>> > Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> > 
>> Checking the filesystem on Windows runs without any complains, but it turns the
>> directory into an useless lump of data. Without checking the filesystem,
>> creating and reading files from that directory works just fine.
>> 
>> I tried to use gzip or xz to compress the very sparse filesystem image that I
>> got, but they made it larger on disk than it really was. So here is a script
>> and pieces of the filesystem that will create a sparse 8GB image.
>> 
>> Thank you for looking into this.
>> Cascardo.
>
> Hi, OGAWA Hirofumi.
>
> What are your thoughts here? Should we make it possible to read such
> filesystems? Is the proposed approach acceptable?

Sorry. I was busy recently, so I didn't have time to check this
yet. When I could make time to check, I will.

Thanks.
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>