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Message-ID: <87vegu4k2u.fsf@duaron.myhome.or.jp>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 01:50:33 +0900
From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
To: "Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@....usu.ru>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
agalakhov@...lrs.uran.ru, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Sanitize filesystem NLS handling
"Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@....usu.ru> writes:
> Would it be OK for you if I add the mount-time check for iocharset=utf8 to
> the fat filesystem and silently replace this with the "utf8" option, instead
> of overly actively warning the users? This way, the sysfs option and the
> nls_base.iocharset module parameter will still work as I want.
Sounds good. But, how do you specify the iocharset's nls for utf8?
>> Because you didn't change the locale. And it is your policy, right?
>
> Yes. This is because I have some files with non-ASCII names in my home
> directory. Changing the locale would make these filenames look wrong until I
> change it back.
The _kernel_ has no reason to force one policy, and that's why I
suggested to add per-filesystem driver option (not per-super_block).
(e.g. nls provides interface for it, etc...)
--
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
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