> > The reason I ask this is that my understanding of the way the VFAT fs
> > works implies that the two names are effectively independant, and the
> > only requirement attached to them is that they both point to the same
> > file.
>
> Wrong. LFN is attached to short name.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds very like an
LFN is actually a (rather restricted) symlink.
Perhaps that's a potential solution.
It could make for rather ugly directory listings, but IMO
that's better than the ugly code that we have now.
Matthew.
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