Re: JFS default behavior (was: UTF-8 in file systems? xfs/extfs/etc.)

[Tim Connors]

Andy Isaacson <adi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said on Wed, 11 Feb 2004 18:45:32 -0600:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 10:35:10AM -0600, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> > Yeah, JFS has poor default behavior based on CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT.  I
> > attempted to explain why it works that way in the first bug listed above
> > if anyone is curious.
> 
> I think your suggested fix is good, but it begs the question:
> 
> Why on earth is JFS worried about the filename, anyways?  Why has it
> *ever* had *any* behavior other than "string of bytes, delimited with /,
> terminated with \0" ?

Thanks for wording my question better. That was *precisely* the
question I was trying to ask :)

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