[PATCH] Add a warning about non-ASCII filenames in ASCII-CI mode
Zachary Kotlarek
zach at kotlarek.com
Wed Jan 15 11:23:02 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..e1c5cf7 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 and are likely
+to become inaccessible if used.
.IP
Note: Version 1 directories are not supported.
.TP
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