From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263388AbUBPW02 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2004 17:26:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265907AbUBPW02 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2004 17:26:28 -0500 Received: from mail.shareable.org ([81.29.64.88]:30084 "EHLO mail.shareable.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263388AbUBPW0X (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2004 17:26:23 -0500 Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 22:26:18 +0000 From: Jamie Lokier To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Marc Lehmann , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Linux kernel Subject: Re: UTF-8 practically vs. theoretically in the VFS API (was: Re: JFS default behavior) Message-ID: <20040216222618.GF18853@mail.shareable.org> References: <04Feb13.163954est.41760@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca> <200402150006.23177.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> <20040214232935.GK8858@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <200402150107.26277.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> <20040216183616.GA16491@schmorp.de> <20040216200321.GB17015@schmorp.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > It would also be very painful, since it would mean that when you mount an > old disk, you may be totally unable to read the files, because they have > filenames that such a kernel would never accept. Alas, once userspace has migrated to doing everything in UTF-8, you won't be able to read those files because userspace will barf on them. Then you'll be glad to have a mount option which converts iso-8859-1 to UTF-* :) (Even if the old disk as actually not iso-8859-1, at least you'll be able to read it's mangled filenames, rather than userspace tripping over them). -- Jamie