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| author | Hirofumi Ogawa <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> | 2004-08-02 00:01:50 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2004-08-02 00:01:50 -0700 |
| commit | a5cd4546d40028705e16c84ce41402e16aed33a6 (patch) | |
| tree | ddcb382bf8877d4253cb11b9d1a69acb9eeeb30b /Documentation | |
| parent | 81fd00e2e58911325c794b6f98d683ecb7db2b04 (diff) | |
| download | history-a5cd4546d40028705e16c84ce41402e16aed33a6.tar.gz | |
[PATCH] FAT: kill nls default
Previously, fatfs was using NLS_DEFAULT if users didn't specify the
codepage or iocharset option. This became cause of trouble (filename
access).
This patch removes the complicated default config in kernel.
Instead of it, by default, fatfs uses builtin nls ("default"), also reports
it and mounts as read-only. This default will limit the access more or
less. Note: If peoples want to write on this default, it still can switch
by remount.
Therefore, basically users will need to specify mount options always.
("codepage" for msdos, and "codepage" and "iocharset" for vfat) However, it
can be done simply by script or shell alias or something else in userland.
Thanks to Andries Brouwer for your many advice.
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt index 5ead20c6c7443f..b7554bd4770364 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt @@ -19,18 +19,23 @@ fmask=### -- The permission mask for files. codepage=### -- Sets the codepage number for converting to shortname characters on FAT filesystem. - By default, FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE setting is used. + + NOTE: If this option was not specified, the file name + may not be read/written rightly, also filesystem is + mounted as read-only. 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. |