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Message-ID: <YoP5jH5axe9ltX2Y@mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2022 15:37:48 -0400
From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com>
Cc: adilger.kernel@...ger.ca, jaegeuk@...nel.org,
linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
ebiggers@...nel.org, kernel@...labora.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] Clean up the case-insensitive lookup path
On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 03:31:36PM -0400, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
> The case-insensitive implementations in f2fs and ext4 have quite a bit
> of duplicated code. This series simplifies the ext4 version, with the
> goal of extracting ext4_ci_compare into a helper library that can be
> used by both filesystems. It also reduces the clutter from many
> codeguards for CONFIG_UNICODE; as requested by Linus, they are part of
> the codeflow now.
>
> While there, I noticed we can leverage the utf8 functions to detect
> encoded names that are corrupted in the filesystem. Therefore, it also
> adds an ext4 error on that scenario, to mark the filesystem as
> corrupted.
Gabriel, are you planning on doing another version of this patch series?
It looks like the first two patches for ext4 are not controversial, so
I could take those, while some of the other patches have questions
which Eric has raised.
Thanks,
- Ted
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