[RFC v2] Unicode/UTF-8 support for XFS

Andi Kleen andi at firstfloor.org
Mon Sep 22 09:55:59 CDT 2014


Ben Myers <bpm at sgi.com> writes:
>
> Strings are normalized using a trie that stores the relevant
> information.  The trie itself is about 250kB in size, and lives in a
> separate module.

So 250kB bloat -- and what does this fix exactly?

Someone putting random ligatures into their file names and expecting
the file to be the same as before. Can't they just not do that?

-Andi



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