Files with non-ASCII names inaccessible after xfs_repair

Michael Weissenbacher mw at dermichi.com
Thu Jan 16 14:55:51 CST 2014


Hi!
>
> The utf-8 patches add a "is this valid utf-8" check to all the
> operations that care. We could probably do that for the ASCII-CI
> stuff if you can define what ASCII means....
>
That's easy actually, since ASCII is a 7-bit code it can only contain 
char values between 0-127 or in other words the highest bit must not be 
set in any char. But probably this strict check could break other stuff.

cheers,
Michael



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