Re: vfat: why is shortname=lower the default?

[Xuân Baldauf <xuan--2004.03.29--linux-kernel--vger.kernel.org@baldauf.org>]

OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:

> Xuân Baldauf <xuan--2004.03.29--linux-kernel--vger.kernel.org@baldauf.org> writes:
>
>  
>
> > Why is shortname=lower the default mount option for vfat filesystems?
> > Because, with "shortname=lower", copying one FAT32 filesystem tree to
> > another FAT32 filesystem tree using Liux results in semantically
> > different filesystems. (E.g.: Filenames which were once "all
> > uppercase" are now "all lowercase").
> >    
>
> The reason is only it's very long-standing behavior.  When this
> behavior was changed before, it seems an one user was confused at
> least.
>
>    http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=97041869500002&r=1&w=2
>
> Personally I agree that "winnt" or "mixed" is proper.
>
> However, if we want to change the default behavior, it would need to
> be tested for some months, and if anyone has no objection it can
> change I think.
>  
One could make a slow transition, starting now with a warning like 
"vfat: warning: You are using "shortname=lower" as default. This may not 
be what you want. This default will change to "shortname=mixed" after 
2005-07-01." if the shortname behaviour is not explicitly selected.

> Thanks.
>  
ciao,
Xuân. :-)

P.S.: I'm now trying to recover about 4M files from "lost case"...

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