Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 11:16:00 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>
Cc: Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Tomorrow
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On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 10:02:12PM -0500, Steve Lord wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 21:55, Ethan Benson wrote:
> 
> > 
> > well price you pay for using crud like windows..
> > 
> > anyway they should just use a broken case insensitive filesystem like
> > NTFS, or HFS+ for the smb export, rather then insist we cripple (or
> > cruftify) decent filesystems like XFS.
> > 
> 
> This stuff will not get in the way of normal operation, and there is
> a market for being an SMB server - and XFS runs on more than one
> operating system. Actually it is really not that much code.

Also Linux already has the required I18N code for it. I would be still
curious if you chose UTF-8 or 8bit code pages for it.

-Andi