Re: how are >8bit filesystems translated into kernel?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 24 Aug 1997 19:33:37 +0100 (BST)

> So, to ask the question I was really looking for:
>
> How are >8bit filesystems translated into 8bit in the kernel?

They aren't. UTF8 guarantees that / and \0 don't occur as part of 16bit
symbols - that is UTF8 encoding is transparent to the file system.

Your ext2fs is UTF8 encoded right now, you've just not noticed since you
only put ascii symbols into it 8)

Alan