VFAT speedup patch, note

Jukka Tapani Santala (e75644@UWasa.Fi)
Sat, 17 Oct 1998 18:23:06 +0300 (EET DST)

I'm just entering a quick note on the VFAT speedup patches I wrote and
sent to this list for discussion about a month ago. I've been running them
on my machine since then, but noticed some odd behaviour a while ago.
While using a Java->C translator on the VFAT partition, several files
showed up without the extension, generally messing things up a bit.

My current hypothesis is that since Linux VFAT source currently (before
the patches) also accepts zero as end-of-filename symbol, it may actually
generate them as well under some conditions. I haven't tested this
hypothesis or if the VFAT code does same without the patch (Also a
possibility), as I'm a bit swamped atm.

But until I or somebody else does, I would recommend against using those
patches on anything critical...

Thanks ;)

-Donwulff

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