On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 11:06:27PM +0100, Burak Gerz wrote: > Hello > This patch series is a first implementation for file renaming on a FAT > filesystems. This implementation does a file rename only (no moving > between directories) as needed by bootloaders like systemd-boot [1]. > > The renaming process is tried to be made as fail-safe as possible, by > 1. Writing the new, empty file > 2. Copying the address of the start cluster into new directory entry > 3. Deleting old file > This can decay in the worst case to a hard link > > Additionally, make use of the FAT file rename in /lib/efi_loader > > [1] > https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd-boot.html#Boot%20Counting
This is useful, thanks! Can you please extend the existing tests in test/py/tests/test_fs/ to cover this as well? -- Tom
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