Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 02:04:41 -0800
From: Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
To: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Tomorrow
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On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 11:31:03AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > i wouldn't call them v3 dirs either, that implies its an `upgrade' to
> > v2, when in fact its a downgrade (non-broken -> broken).  maybe call
> > them v0 (afaik xfs only has two dir formats v1 and v2). or call it
> > something entirely different, like broken_dirs ;-)
>=20
> I would not call them broken, but what is a bit worrying is that it can
> be quite complicated to lower case letters.  In the American ASCII subset=
 it's=20
> easy, but for other languages it usually needs huge lookup tables and wor=
se
> there are different character set.
>=20
> You either only support UTF-8 Unicode (shifting the burden of conversion=
=20
> to user space) or you need to store a "codepage" per filesystem.  Linux s=
eems
> to go towards the UTF-8 route.  The kernel already has some code for this=
=20
> (JFS does it), but it will be not pretty.

all the more reason to leave it in userspace.=20=20

all for a legacy OS...

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Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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