Bug#483781: FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
tags 483781 wontfix
thanks
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 06:57:33PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
> How is a mount helper supposed to address this? Having anything other than
> utf8 exposed on the vfs is broken, so it needs to be mounted as utf8;
Have you ever read the warning message _and_ the behaviour of the "utf8"
option? This was discussed on #debian-kernel some weeks ago.
> the
> fact that mounting as utf8 breaks vfat case-insensitivity is a bug in the
> vfat kernel driver.
Even if it is a bug, it will not get fixed. It is a design decision to
not hold case-translations for utf8 because this table would get huge.
As workaround the utf8 option was added and can be used with any other
iocharset definition.
Now _userspace_ needs to proper define the mapping which matches the
users needs.
Bastian
--
There is an order of things in this universe.
-- Apollo, "Who Mourns for Adonais?" stardate 3468.1
Reply to: