Re: [ros-dev] Patent on FAT

[Mark Tempel]

I believe that if you want the FAT partition to interoperate with Windows, you
need the short filename.  IIRC the LFN dirents all have a checksum pointing
associating them with the SFN dirent that actually has the initial cluster
value.

You would probably be better off removing LFN support instead.

If you don't want to interoperate with Windows none of that matters... ;-)

Keep up the good work guys.

--mark

Quoting James Tabor <jimtabor(a)adsl-64-217-116-74.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net>et>:

>   Steven Edwards wrote:
> >   Hi,
> >
> >  I think we should turn off the 8.3 short filename support by default
> >  and see what breaks. Providing a option right at the start of 2nd
> >  stage step "Patented features" using a checkbox to enable it should
> >  get us around the issue. Its not our problem if someone else enables
> >  it.
> >  
>  Hi,
>  Until we receive correspondence from the patent holder, we do nothing.
>
>  But,, it is good, if we do receive something, we have a plan.
>  8^)
>  James
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