[PATCH] Add a warning about non-ASCII filenames in ASCII-CI mode

Zachary Kotlarek zach at kotlarek.com
Wed Jan 15 03:09:36 CST 2014


---
 man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8 |    6 ++++--
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8 b/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8
index 8184e10..7f965b0 100644
--- a/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8
+++ b/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8
@@ -513,9 +513,11 @@ any power of 2 size from the filesystem block size up to 65536.
 .IP
 The
 .B version=ci
-option enables ASCII only case-insensitive filename lookup and version
+option enables ASCII-only case-insensitive filename lookup and version
 2 directories. Filenames are case-preserving, that is, the names
-are stored in directories using the case they were created with.
+are stored in directories using the case they were created with. In this
+mode non-ASCII file and directory names are not supported are are likely
+to become inaccessible if used.
 .IP
 Note: Version 1 directories are not supported.
 .TP
-- 
1.7.2.3



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