linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH e2fsprogs 2/9] e2fsprogs: Reserve feature bit and SB field bit for filename encoding

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Message-ID: <20181119041509.GG32299@thunk.org>
Date:   Sun, 18 Nov 2018 23:15:09 -0500
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.co.uk>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH e2fsprogs 2/9] e2fsprogs: Reserve feature bit and SB
 field bit for filename encoding

On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 05:12:13PM -0400, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
> The s_encoding field in the superblock stores a magic number indicating
> the encoding format and version used globally by file and directory
> names in the filesystem.
> 
> The s_encoding_flags defines policies for using the charset encoding,
> like how to handle invalid sequences and what kind of normalization to
> use.
> 
> A feature flag is also allocated to indicate whether this filesystem has
> encoding awareness enabled.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.co.uk>

Thanks, applied.

						- Ted