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

Andi Kleen
2014-09-22T19:30:05Z

> > So 250kB bloat -- and what does this fix exactly?
>
> We're trying to address the size issue by only loading the module when

I'm not sure this is really addressing it.

> it's needed, but yeah it's big. Open to suggestions on how best to deal
> with that. I understand the sticker shock.

I don't even understand why you need the whole table.

You want to not compare some special symbols, and a few other symbols
are equivalent to others. But most symbols are only identical to themselves.

Couldn't you have a much smaller table that only expresses
the exceptions?

> As far as telling the customer "don't do that", my guess is that they
> would just go elsewhere. There are several other options for
> filesystems that support unicode.

They could put some code into their user app that generates
an unique representation.

-Andi