Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 Aug 1999 13:05:52 +0400 (MSD) | From | Khimenko Victor <> | Subject | Re: Your backup is unsafe! |
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On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Riley Williams wrote:
> >>> But yes, it looks like good idea since right now you can not > >>> SEE short names but can USE them (rm shortnam.ext will remove > >>> file, for example; and you can not create new file with > >>> existing short name, etc). > > >> Personally, I see that behaviour as a serious bug in the current > >> code, as only names that are actually visible should have any > >> affect. OK, there may be names that are invisible that get > >> labelled as illegal, and I see no problem with that, but any > >> other behaviour for names that are not visible is at best a > >> security problem and at worst a disaster waiting to happen. > > > The whole vfat design is "disaster waiting to happen" :-/ > > The original design is, yes, but then, that came from Microsoft, so > what can one expect. The Linux implementation isn't too bad in a lot > of ways, but there are a few tweaks that are needed to polish it up to > the professional standards that Linus generally requires. > You can not workaround general flaws in design. Linux has mostly the same problem with vfat as Win9X/WinNT itself.
> >>> It's frustrating even without backup problems (in fact backup > >>> problems are not THAT bad: just use doslfnbk from dosemu :-) > > >> Assuming one runs dosemu. I don't. > > > You can run dosemu or you can write something like doslfnbk for > > Linux :-) At your choice. No kernel modifications are needed... > > True, but my response to the former is to ask why one should be forced > to run something like dosemu just for that one task, especially when > one can back up everything but the vfat partitions without doing so. > Since noone fixed tar so far :-) That's all. All needed ioctl's are in place. I'm happy with dosemu solution and if you are not then you can fix tar...
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