mount_msdos without iconv? (-L en_US.UTF-8 -D UTF-8 no worky)

Max Herrgard herrgard at gmail.com
Fri Feb 15 16:14:27 PST 2019


Heh, just read the subject properly. Sorry bro.

/Max

On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 1:06 AM Max Herrgard <herrgard at gmail.com> wrote:

> Have you tried to play with the mount options -L and -D described in
> mount_msdos(8)?  I haven't tried myself, but could be worth a shot.
>
> Cheers,
> Max
>
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 10:43 PM Mike Zhang <furry_for_puffy at runbox.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I have a bunch of files with unicode filenames that I'm trying to copy
>> onto
>> an MSDOS mount and what ends up happening is I get a bunch of invalid
>> nodes
>> that cannot be accessed in any way, including rm -rf /mymountpt/dir.  This
>> seems to be because mount_msdos is trying to be too smart for its own good
>> and convert character sets in a way that apparently results in invalid
>> filenames sometimes.  I am using -L en_US.UTF-8 -D UTF-8 to mount the fs.
>>
>> I've already had to wipe the FAT table, re-newfs and restore from backup
>> on
>> OpenBSD because there was no other way to get rid of the invalid nodes
>> (the
>> nodes created by DragonFly are undeleteable even on OpenBSD).  As far as
>> I'm
>> aware, OpenBSD's mount_msdos treats each filename as a raw char *, to be
>> passed through byte for byte without regard to charsets or code pages or
>> what have you.  This is exactly the behavior I'm looking for.
>>
>> So my question is, is there any way to force raw, unconverted filenames on
>> DragonFly?  I'd like to be able to use this thing on all my boxen without
>> resorting to silliness like NFS exporting it from OpenBSD.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
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