That would appear to work [LWN.net]

That would appear to work

Posted Mar 5, 2009 2:39 UTC (Thu) by jamesh (guest, #1159)
In reply to: That would appear to work by JoeBuck
Parent article: Third time is the charm?

On Windows, both the long and short path names are available concurrently for VFAT. You can even mix the long and short names in a single path (e.g. "c:\Progra~1\Microsoft Office"). It really is exposed as a single name space for both types of file names.

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That would appear to work

Posted Mar 5, 2009 2:51 UTC (Thu) by jmorris42 (guest, #2203) [Link]

> It really is exposed as a single name space for both types of file names.

It is in the Windows implementation but there isn't a requirement that other implementations follow their example. I don't think the Linux vfat does, haven't used fat volumes much lately to really say. Matters not though since if doing that would work around the patent it wouldn't be a loss of usability for vfat under linux to only show/accept the long file names.