From: Arjan van de Ven Right now the kernel detects the sysadmin trying to set the iocharset of vfat to UTF8 and prevents this with an error. While I can see that this is not recommended, enforcing this is policy that probably doesn't belong in the kernel. The patch below makes this situation a warning and a recommendation instead of a strong blockage. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=126641 is an example of a sysadmin disliking this policy enforcement. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- 25-akpm/fs/fat/inode.c | 5 ++--- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/fat/inode.c~allow-root-to-choose-vfat-policy-to-utf8 fs/fat/inode.c --- 25/fs/fat/inode.c~allow-root-to-choose-vfat-policy-to-utf8 Thu Jun 24 15:37:46 2004 +++ 25-akpm/fs/fat/inode.c Thu Jun 24 15:37:46 2004 @@ -499,9 +499,8 @@ static int parse_options(char *options, } /* UTF8 doesn't provide FAT semantics */ if (!strcmp(opts->iocharset, "utf8")) { - printk(KERN_ERR "FAT: utf8 is not a valid IO charset" - " for FAT filesystems\n"); - return -EINVAL; + printk(KERN_ERR "FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset" + " for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!\n"); } if (opts->unicode_xlate) _