From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
Right now the kernel detects the sysadmin trying to set the iocharset of
vfat to UTF8 and prevents this with an error. While I can see that this is
not recommended, enforcing this is policy that probably doesn't belong in
the kernel. The patch below makes this situation a warning and a
recommendation instead of a strong blockage.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=126641
is an example of a sysadmin disliking this policy enforcement.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
---
25-akpm/fs/fat/inode.c | 5 ++---
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff -puN fs/fat/inode.c~allow-root-to-choose-vfat-policy-to-utf8 fs/fat/inode.c
--- 25/fs/fat/inode.c~allow-root-to-choose-vfat-policy-to-utf8 Thu Jun 24 15:37:46 2004
+++ 25-akpm/fs/fat/inode.c Thu Jun 24 15:37:46 2004
@@ -499,9 +499,8 @@ static int parse_options(char *options,
}
/* UTF8 doesn't provide FAT semantics */
if (!strcmp(opts->iocharset, "utf8")) {
- printk(KERN_ERR "FAT: utf8 is not a valid IO charset"
- " for FAT filesystems\n");
- return -EINVAL;
+ printk(KERN_ERR "FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset"
+ " for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!\n");
}
if (opts->unicode_xlate)
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