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authorDaniel Pinto <danielpinto52@gmail.com>2022-10-10 12:16:29 +0100
committerKonstantin Komarov <almaz.alexandrovich@paragon-software.com>2022-11-12 20:59:42 +0300
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fs/ntfs3: Document windows_names mount option
Add documentation for windows_names mount option. Signed-off-by: Daniel Pinto <danielpinto52@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Komarov <almaz.alexandrovich@paragon-software.com>
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- Files with the Windows-specific SYSTEM (FILE_ATTRIBUTE_SYSTEM) attribute
will be marked as system immutable files.
+ * - windows_names
+ - Prevents the creation of files and directories with a name not allowed
+ by Windows, either because it contains some not allowed character (which
+ are the characters " * / : < > ? \\ | and those whose code is less than
+ 0x20), because the name (with or without extension) is a reserved file
+ name (CON, AUX, NUL, PRN, LPT1-9, COM1-9) or because the last character
+ is a space or a dot. Existing such files can still be read and renamed.
+
* - discard
- Enable support of the TRIM command for improved performance on delete
operations, which is recommended for use with the solid-state drives