Re: JFS default behavior / UTF-8 filenames

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Date: 02/22/04

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To: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>

    On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 09:00:58AM -0600, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
    > With no iocharset specified, a filename with such a character will be
    > inaccessible. Probably the best thing for readdir to do is to
    > substitute a '?' and print a message to the syslog to mount the volume
    > with iocharset=utf8 to be able to access the file. Of course I would
    > limit the number of printk's to something small. I'll submit a patch to
    > do this.

    And that's why I was saying I think UTF-8 mode is the "least broken" for
    any filesystem that stores filenames in a specific encoding rather than
    "as the client submitted it". And most especially for UCS-2/UTF-16
    filesystems.

    I think the default for a filesystem should be something that absolutely
    will not disappear your files. So for NTFS/JFS, it should be UTF-8. And
    if a traditional UNIX filesystem wants to do a UTF-8 only mode, I think
    ideally it should be done at mkfs time rather than mount time.
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