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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2004-08-09 02:57:09 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2004-08-09 02:57:09 -0700 |
| commit | a5b62ecbd4a108e595f47a475e7a3acf5ca24f0b (patch) | |
| tree | 14f0cb6d0799469c018edcc1f36fe6274b1f200a /Documentation | |
| parent | dcff0e756ca34d301e760ae751eaf285c81a5a51 (diff) | |
| download | history-a5b62ecbd4a108e595f47a475e7a3acf5ca24f0b.tar.gz | |
Revert FAT NLS changes.
It's causing massive user confusion, and breaks installers by
mounting the filesystem read-only.
Cset exclude: hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp[torvalds]|ChangeSet|20040802210150|02337
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt index b7554bd4770364..5ead20c6c7443f 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt @@ -19,23 +19,18 @@ fmask=### -- The permission mask for files. codepage=### -- Sets the codepage number for converting to shortname characters on FAT filesystem. - - NOTE: If this option was not specified, the file name - may not be read/written rightly, also filesystem is - mounted as read-only. + By default, FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE setting is used. iocharset=name -- Character set to use for converting between the encoding is used for user visible filename and 16 bit Unicode characters. Long filenames are stored on disk in Unicode format, but Unix for the most part doesn't know how to deal with Unicode. + By default, FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET setting is used. + There is also an option of doing UTF8 translations with the utf8 option. - NOTE: If this option was not specified, the file name - may not be read/written rightly, also filesystem is - mounted as read-only. - NOTE: "iocharset=utf8" is not recommended. If unsure, you should consider the following option instead. |