Documentation: filesystems: convert vfat.txt to RST

Converts vfat.txt to the reStructuredText format, improving presentation
without changing the underlying content.

Signed-off-by: Daniel W. S. Almeida <dwlsalmeida@gmail.com>
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Changes in v3:
Removed unnecessary markup.
Removed section "BUG REPORTS" as recommended by the maintainer.

Changes in v2:
Refactored long lines as pointed out by Jonathan
Copied the maintainer
Updated the reference in the MAINTAINERS file for vfat

I did not move this into admin-guide, waiting on what the
maintainer has to say about this and also about old sections
in the text, if any.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191223010030.434902-1-dwlsalmeida@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

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-USING VFAT
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-To use the vfat filesystem, use the filesystem type 'vfat'.  i.e.
-  mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt
-
-No special partition formatter is required.  mkdosfs will work fine
-if you want to format from within Linux.
-
-VFAT MOUNT OPTIONS
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-uid=###       -- Set the owner of all files on this filesystem.
-		 The default is the uid of current process.
-
-gid=###       -- Set the group of all files on this filesystem.
-		 The default is the gid of current process.
-
-umask=###     -- The permission mask (for files and directories, see umask(1)).
-                 The default is the umask of current process.
-
-dmask=###     -- The permission mask for the directory.
-                 The default is the umask of current process.
-
-fmask=###     -- The permission mask for files.
-                 The default is the umask of current process.
-
-allow_utime=### -- This option controls the permission check of mtime/atime.
-
-                  20 - If current process is in group of file's group ID,
-                       you can change timestamp.
-                   2 - Other users can change timestamp.
-
-                 The default is set from `dmask' option. (If the directory is
-                 writable, utime(2) is also allowed. I.e. ~dmask & 022)
-
-                 Normally utime(2) checks current process is owner of
-                 the file, or it has CAP_FOWNER capability.  But FAT
-                 filesystem doesn't have uid/gid on disk, so normal
-                 check is too unflexible. With this option you can
-                 relax it.
-
-codepage=###  -- Sets the codepage number for converting to shortname
-		 characters on FAT filesystem.
-		 By default, FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE setting is used.
-
-iocharset=<name> -- Character set to use for converting between the
-		 encoding is used for user visible filename and 16 bit
-		 Unicode characters. Long filenames are stored on disk
-		 in Unicode format, but Unix for the most part doesn't
-		 know how to deal with Unicode.
-		 By default, FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET setting is used.
-
-		 There is also an option of doing UTF-8 translations
-		 with the utf8 option.
-
-		 NOTE: "iocharset=utf8" is not recommended. If unsure,
-		 you should consider the following option instead.
-
-utf8=<bool>   -- UTF-8 is the filesystem safe version of Unicode that
-		 is used by the console. It can be enabled or disabled
-		 for the filesystem with this option.
-		 If 'uni_xlate' gets set, UTF-8 gets disabled.
-		 By default, FAT_DEFAULT_UTF8 setting is used.
-
-uni_xlate=<bool> -- Translate unhandled Unicode characters to special
-		 escaped sequences.  This would let you backup and
-		 restore filenames that are created with any Unicode
-		 characters.  Until Linux supports Unicode for real,
-		 this gives you an alternative.  Without this option,
-		 a '?' is used when no translation is possible.  The
-		 escape character is ':' because it is otherwise
-		 illegal on the vfat filesystem.  The escape sequence
-		 that gets used is ':' and the four digits of hexadecimal
-		 unicode.
-
-nonumtail=<bool> -- When creating 8.3 aliases, normally the alias will
-                 end in '~1' or tilde followed by some number.  If this
-                 option is set, then if the filename is 
-                 "longfilename.txt" and "longfile.txt" does not
-                 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.
-                 s: strict, case sensitive
-                 r: relaxed, case insensitive
-                 n: normal, default setting, currently case insensitive
-
-nocase        -- This was deprecated for vfat. Use shortname=win95 instead.
-
-shortname=lower|win95|winnt|mixed
-	      -- Shortname display/create setting.
-		 lower: convert to lowercase for display,
-			emulate the Windows 95 rule for create.
-		 win95: emulate the Windows 95 rule for display/create.
-		 winnt: emulate the Windows NT rule for display/create.
-		 mixed: emulate the Windows NT rule for display,
-			emulate the Windows 95 rule for create.
-		 Default setting is `mixed'.
-
-tz=UTC        -- Interpret timestamps as UTC rather than local time.
-                 This option disables the conversion of timestamps
-                 between local time (as used by Windows on FAT) and UTC
-                 (which Linux uses internally).  This is particularly
-                 useful when mounting devices (like digital cameras)
-                 that are set to UTC in order to avoid the pitfalls of
-                 local time.
-time_offset=minutes
-	      -- Set offset for conversion of timestamps from local time
-		 used by FAT to UTC. I.e. <minutes> minutes will be subtracted
-		 from each timestamp to convert it to UTC used internally by
-		 Linux. This is useful when time zone set in sys_tz is
-		 not the time zone used by the filesystem. Note that this
-		 option still does not provide correct time stamps in all
-		 cases in presence of DST - time stamps in a different DST
-		 setting will be off by one hour.
-
-showexec      -- If set, the execute permission bits of the file will be
-		 allowed only if the extension part of the name is .EXE,
-		 .COM, or .BAT. Not set by default.
-
-debug         -- Can be set, but unused by the current implementation.
-
-sys_immutable -- If set, ATTR_SYS attribute on FAT is handled as
-		 IMMUTABLE flag on Linux. Not set by default.
-
-flush         -- If set, the filesystem will try to flush to disk more
-		 early than normal. Not set by default.
-
-rodir	      -- FAT has the ATTR_RO (read-only) attribute. On Windows,
-		 the ATTR_RO of the directory will just be ignored,
-		 and is used only by applications as a flag (e.g. it's set
-		 for the customized folder).
-
-		 If you want to use ATTR_RO as read-only flag even for
-		 the directory, set this option.
-
-errors=panic|continue|remount-ro
-	      -- specify FAT behavior on critical errors: panic, continue
-		 without doing anything or remount the partition in
-		 read-only mode (default behavior).
-
-discard       -- If set, issues discard/TRIM commands to the block
-		 device when blocks are freed. This is useful for SSD devices
-		 and sparse/thinly-provisoned LUNs.
-
-nfs=stale_rw|nostale_ro
-		Enable this only if you want to export the FAT filesystem
-		over NFS.
-
-		stale_rw: This option maintains an index (cache) of directory
-		inodes by i_logstart which is used by the nfs-related code to
-		improve look-ups. Full file operations (read/write) over NFS is
-		supported but with cache eviction at NFS server, this could
-		result in ESTALE issues.
-
-		nostale_ro: This option bases the inode number and filehandle
-		on the on-disk location of a file in the MS-DOS directory entry.
-		This ensures that ESTALE will not be returned after a file is
-		evicted from the inode cache. However, it means that operations
-		such as rename, create and unlink could cause filehandles that
-		previously pointed at one file to point at a different file,
-		potentially causing data corruption. For this reason, this
-		option also mounts the filesystem readonly.
-
-		To maintain backward compatibility, '-o nfs' is also accepted,
-		defaulting to stale_rw
-
-dos1xfloppy  -- If set, use a fallback default BIOS Parameter Block
-		configuration, determined by backing device size. These static
-		parameters match defaults assumed by DOS 1.x for 160 kiB,
-		180 kiB, 320 kiB, and 360 kiB floppies and floppy images.
-
-
-<bool>: 0,1,yes,no,true,false
-
-LIMITATION
----------------------------------------------------------------------
-* The fallocated region of file is discarded at umount/evict time
-  when using fallocate with FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE.
-  So, User should assume that fallocated region can be discarded at
-  last close if there is memory pressure resulting in eviction of
-  the inode from the memory. As a result, for any dependency on
-  the fallocated region, user should make sure to recheck fallocate
-  after reopening the file.
-
-TODO
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-* Need to get rid of the raw scanning stuff.  Instead, always use
-  a get next directory entry approach.  The only thing left that uses
-  raw scanning is the directory renaming code.
-
-
-POSSIBLE PROBLEMS
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-* vfat_valid_longname does not properly checked reserved names.
-* When a volume name is the same as a directory name in the root
-  directory of the filesystem, the directory name sometimes shows
-  up as an empty file.
-* autoconv option does not work correctly.
-
-BUG REPORTS
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-If you have trouble with the VFAT filesystem, mail bug reports to
-chaffee@bmrc.cs.berkeley.edu.  Please specify the filename
-and the operation that gave you trouble.
-
-TEST SUITE
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-If you plan to make any modifications to the vfat filesystem, please
-get the test suite that comes with the vfat distribution at
-
-  http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/
-  people/chaffee/vfat.html
-
-This tests quite a few parts of the vfat filesystem and additional
-tests for new features or untested features would be appreciated.
-
-NOTES ON THE STRUCTURE OF THE VFAT FILESYSTEM
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-(This documentation was provided by Galen C. Hunt <gchunt@cs.rochester.edu>
- and lightly annotated by Gordon Chaffee).
-
-This document presents a very rough, technical overview of my
-knowledge of the extended FAT file system used in Windows NT 3.5 and
-Windows 95.  I don't guarantee that any of the following is correct,
-but it appears to be so.
-
-The extended FAT file system is almost identical to the FAT
-file system used in DOS versions up to and including 6.223410239847
-:-).  The significant change has been the addition of long file names.
-These names support up to 255 characters including spaces and lower
-case characters as opposed to the traditional 8.3 short names.
-
-Here is the description of the traditional FAT entry in the current
-Windows 95 filesystem:
-
-        struct directory { // Short 8.3 names 
-                unsigned char name[8];          // file name 
-                unsigned char ext[3];           // file extension 
-                unsigned char attr;             // attribute byte 
-		unsigned char lcase;		// Case for base and extension
-		unsigned char ctime_ms;		// Creation time, milliseconds
-		unsigned char ctime[2];		// Creation time
-		unsigned char cdate[2];		// Creation date
-		unsigned char adate[2];		// Last access date
-		unsigned char reserved[2];	// reserved values (ignored) 
-                unsigned char time[2];          // time stamp 
-                unsigned char date[2];          // date stamp 
-                unsigned char start[2];         // starting cluster number 
-                unsigned char size[4];          // size of the file 
-        };
-
-The lcase field specifies if the base and/or the extension of an 8.3
-name should be capitalized.  This field does not seem to be used by
-Windows 95 but it is used by Windows NT.  The case of filenames is not
-completely compatible from Windows NT to Windows 95.  It is not completely
-compatible in the reverse direction, however.  Filenames that fit in
-the 8.3 namespace and are written on Windows NT to be lowercase will
-show up as uppercase on Windows 95.
-
-Note that the "start" and "size" values are actually little
-endian integer values.  The descriptions of the fields in this
-structure are public knowledge and can be found elsewhere.
-
-With the extended FAT system, Microsoft has inserted extra
-directory entries for any files with extended names.  (Any name which
-legally fits within the old 8.3 encoding scheme does not have extra
-entries.)  I call these extra entries slots.  Basically, a slot is a
-specially formatted directory entry which holds up to 13 characters of
-a file's extended name.  Think of slots as additional labeling for the
-directory entry of the file to which they correspond.  Microsoft
-prefers to refer to the 8.3 entry for a file as its alias and the
-extended slot directory entries as the file name. 
-
-The C structure for a slot directory entry follows:
-
-        struct slot { // Up to 13 characters of a long name 
-                unsigned char id;               // sequence number for slot 
-                unsigned char name0_4[10];      // first 5 characters in name 
-                unsigned char attr;             // attribute byte
-                unsigned char reserved;         // always 0 
-                unsigned char alias_checksum;   // checksum for 8.3 alias 
-                unsigned char name5_10[12];     // 6 more characters in name
-                unsigned char start[2];         // starting cluster number
-                unsigned char name11_12[4];     // last 2 characters in name
-        };
-
-If the layout of the slots looks a little odd, it's only
-because of Microsoft's efforts to maintain compatibility with old
-software.  The slots must be disguised to prevent old software from
-panicking.  To this end, a number of measures are taken:
-
-        1) The attribute byte for a slot directory entry is always set
-           to 0x0f.  This corresponds to an old directory entry with
-           attributes of "hidden", "system", "read-only", and "volume
-           label".  Most old software will ignore any directory
-           entries with the "volume label" bit set.  Real volume label
-           entries don't have the other three bits set.
-
-        2) The starting cluster is always set to 0, an impossible
-           value for a DOS file.
-
-Because the extended FAT system is backward compatible, it is
-possible for old software to modify directory entries.  Measures must
-be taken to ensure the validity of slots.  An extended FAT system can
-verify that a slot does in fact belong to an 8.3 directory entry by
-the following:
-
-        1) Positioning.  Slots for a file always immediately proceed
-           their corresponding 8.3 directory entry.  In addition, each
-           slot has an id which marks its order in the extended file
-           name.  Here is a very abbreviated view of an 8.3 directory
-           entry and its corresponding long name slots for the file
-           "My Big File.Extension which is long":
-
-                <proceeding files...>
-                <slot #3, id = 0x43, characters = "h is long">
-                <slot #2, id = 0x02, characters = "xtension whic">
-                <slot #1, id = 0x01, characters = "My Big File.E">
-                <directory entry, name = "MYBIGFIL.EXT">
-
-           Note that the slots are stored from last to first.  Slots
-           are numbered from 1 to N.  The Nth slot is or'ed with 0x40
-           to mark it as the last one.
-
-        2) Checksum.  Each slot has an "alias_checksum" value.  The
-           checksum is calculated from the 8.3 name using the
-           following algorithm:
-
-                for (sum = i = 0; i < 11; i++) {
-                        sum = (((sum&1)<<7)|((sum&0xfe)>>1)) + name[i]
-                }
-
-	3) If there is free space in the final slot, a Unicode NULL (0x0000) 
-	   is stored after the final character.  After that, all unused 
-	   characters in the final slot are set to Unicode 0xFFFF.
-
-Finally, note that the extended name is stored in Unicode.  Each Unicode
-character takes either two or four bytes, UTF-16LE encoded.