Clearly the problem is that from the user prospective in these kind
of events all the information contained in the longer file names are
lost. 

A file copy from Android is always completely transparent to the user,
anyhow. Android open behavior "doesn't help" copping with these long
names: if I copy files from an Android tablet and only after some days I
retrieve them..information are lost in OpenBSD.


Nowarez Market <my2...@has.im> wrote:

> I have a fat32 usb stick that I use to transfer files
> from/to my Android tablet since years.
> 
> I just want to drop the hint that Android manage
> to render the file names exceeding 255 chars offering
> the user the long form anyway while OpenBSD strictly
> apply the FAT specs rendering these file names
> in the 8 chars format.
 

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