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| author | OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> | 2007-05-08 11:31:01 +0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-05-08 22:15:13 +0400 |
| commit | 28ec039c21839914389975b896160a815ffd8b83 (patch) | |
| tree | e6b0364c906ee7409c7bce2d8849420a46cb7c10 /Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt | |
| parent | 4ff773bbde87f7f7dddc0f579ad53e077a6587b9 (diff) | |
| download | linux-28ec039c21839914389975b896160a815ffd8b83.tar.xz | |
fat: don't use free_clusters for fat32
It seems that the recent Windows changed specification, and it's
undocumented. Windows doesn't update ->free_clusters correctly.
This patch doesn't use ->free_clusters by default. (instead, add "usefree"
for forcing to use it)
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Juergen Beisert <juergen127@kreuzholzen.de>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt index 069cb1094300..fcc123ffa252 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt @@ -57,6 +57,13 @@ nonumtail=<bool> -- When creating 8.3 aliases, normally the alias will currently exist in the directory, 'longfile.txt' will be the short alias instead of 'longfi~1.txt'. +usefree -- Use the "free clusters" value stored on FSINFO. It'll + be used to determine number of free clusters without + scanning disk. But it's not used by default, because + recent Windows don't update it correctly in some + case. If you are sure the "free clusters" on FSINFO is + correct, by this option you can avoid scanning disk. + quiet -- Stops printing certain warning messages. check=s|r|n -- Case sensitivity checking setting. |