> Sounds like a limitation of FAT, esp. if the Solaris > PCFS implementation isn't > doing the UTF-16 encoding of the long file names as > it is (if I understand correctly) > supposed to. (The Solaris PCFS implementation is > also said to perform quite > poorly, and is in need of a major rewrite. I think > someone was looking at that, > but don't recall what the latest status is, except > that last I heard, it was > happening _very_ slowly, being more or less good > enough as-is for most > paying customers, or whatever, and therefore getting > very little in the > way of resources.)
Its not good enough for USB MEM sticks , probably because the USB sticks are made by too many different maunfacturers and simply are not similar enough. As the Days of the Floppy has now ended and USB mem sticks are used for moving data around , this is a Emerging problem. //Lars This message posted from opensolaris.org
