linux-toradex.git/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt, branch v3.4.4

Documentation: update broken web addresses.

2010-08-04T13:21:40+00:00

Below you will find an updated version from the original series bunching all patches into one big patch
updating broken web addresses that are located in Documentation/*
Some of the addresses date as far far back as 1995 etc... so searching became a bit difficult,
the best way to deal with these is to use web.archive.org to locate these addresses that are outdated.
Now there are also some addresses pointing to .spec files some are located, but some(after searching
on the companies site)where still no where to be found. In this case I just changed the address
to the company site this way the users can contact the company and they can locate them for the users.

Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weber 
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger 
Cc: Paulo Marques 
Cc: Randy Dunlap 
Cc: Michael Neuling 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

vfat: change the default from shortname=lower to shortname=mixed

2009-08-01T12:35:25+00:00

Because, with "shortname=lower", copying one FAT filesystem tree to
another FAT filesystem tree using Linux results in semantically
different filesystems. (E.g.: Filenames which were once "all
uppercase" are now "all lowercase").

So, this changes the default of "shortname=lower" to "shortname=mixed".

Signed-off-by: Paul Wise 
[change fat_show_options()]
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hirofumi/fatfs-2.6

2009-06-16T18:29:44+00:00

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hirofumi/fatfs-2.6:
  fat: split fat_generic_ioctl
  FAT: add 'errors' mount option

trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes

2009-06-12T16:01:47+00:00

Fix various typos in documentation txts.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

FAT: add 'errors' mount option

2009-06-03T17:34:51+00:00

On severe errors FAT remounts itself in read-only mode. Allow to
specify FAT fs desired behavior through 'errors' mount option:
panic, continue or remount read-only.

`mount -t [fat|vfat] -o errors=[panic,remount-ro,continue] \
	 `

This is analog to ext2 fs 'errors' mount option.

Signed-off-by: Denis Karpov 
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi

fat: Fix ATTR_RO for directory

2008-11-06T23:41:21+00:00

FAT has the ATTR_RO (read-only) attribute. But on Windows, the ATTR_RO
of the directory will be just ignored actually, and is used by only
applications as flag. E.g. it's setted for the customized folder by
Explorer.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa969337.aspx

This adds "rodir" option. If user specified it, ATTR_RO is used as
read-only flag even if it's the directory. Otherwise, inode->i_mode
is not used to hold ATTR_RO (i.e. fat_mode_can_save_ro() returns 0).

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fat: document additional vfat mount options

2008-11-06T23:41:20+00:00

While debugging a sync mount regression on vfat I noticed that there were
mount options parsed by the driver that were not documented.

[hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp: fix some parts]
Signed-off-by: Bart Trojanowski 
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

UTC timestamp option for FAT filesystems fix

2008-07-25T17:53:34+00:00

Signed-off-by: Joe Peterson 
Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fat: Add allow_utime option

2008-04-28T15:58:47+00:00

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 as
on disk info, so normal check is too unflexible.

With this option you can relax it.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fat: don't use free_clusters for fat32

2007-05-08T18:15:13+00:00

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 
Cc: Juergen Beisert 
Cc: Andreas Schwab 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds