Long discussions about long names

Posted May 5, 2009 13:00 UTC (Tue) by brother_rat (subscriber, #1895)
In reply to: Long discussions about long names by bfeeney
Parent article: Long discussions about long names

The DCIM naming convention works entirely within the 8.3 short filename limit, so that won't be an issue.

I imagine there will be similar problems with transferring music etc. to FAT based MP3 players though.

Long discussions about long names

Posted May 5, 2009 13:30 UTC (Tue) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link]

Well it depends. If the customer is writing files themselves to the device, like over USB mass storage, then it'll work fine... It'll be their OS that does the long filename writing. Reading long filenames isn't covered in the patents.

If they are transmitting filenames over wireless, MTP (media transfer protocol), Pictbridge, or something like that then the system can write to a non-FAT filesystem easily enough that supports long filenames.

Trouble comes when you want to support a combination of things.. like support USB Mass storage AND MTP.