linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v4 00/23] Ext4 Encoding and Case-insensitive support

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Message-ID: <20181209201043.GA1840@mit.edu>
Date:   Sun, 9 Dec 2018 15:10:43 -0500
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel@...labora.com, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        krisman@...labora.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/23] Ext4 Encoding and Case-insensitive support

On Sun, Dec 09, 2018 at 09:41:13AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> But if you only support ascii or utf-8, then why are you messing with
> the nls part? That makes no sense.
> 
> You can't have it both ways.
> 
> Either you have a horrible fundamental design mistake that has
> different per-filesystem locales, or you don't.
> 
> If you don't, you shouldn't be touching any of the nls code.
> 
> Whatever unicode tables you use for case folding shouldn't be in the nls code.

Gabriel added the Unicode tables for case folding to the fs/nls
directory.  If you'd prefer that we put them somewhere else, we
can; do you have a preference?

					- Ted