On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> Bodo Eggert <[email protected]> writes:
> > Windows _does_ care*, it will pretend the disk to be full.
>
> Did you test on 2000 or XP? (e.g. write 0 to free_clusters, then
> create new file.)
That was back when I still used W98.
> > - usefree is a bad name (I'd suggest recalc_free instead),
>
> Is it about nofree option?
Yes. I think recalc_free is way more descriptive.
> > and your description is too cryptic to be understood by a non-linux
> > FAT expert.
>
> Um... why do we need to care about non-linux people in the patch?
Non-experts in Linux FAT implementation details. "recalc sounds like might
take long, let's try to disable it" should be all it takes to get a fast
mount.
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