[syslinux] Interest in NTFS

[H. Peter Anvin]

Andreas Kotes wrote:
> 
> I think VFAT long filenames are more worthwhile ...
> 

I think this is probably the right sequence of priorities.

The biggest issue with VFAT long file names -- and I suspect NTFS has 
the same thing -- is that they use Unicode (UTF-16) filenames, and 
case-insensitive to boot, which are hard to handle correctly in a pre-OS 
environment.

What I think is pretty clear is that non-ASCII characters will have to 
be a "best effort", and almost certainly won't play nice with the 
limited internationalization support already in Syslinux.  However, it's 
probably not really a big deal.

	-hpa