linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 4/4] docs: tmpfs: Add casefold options

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Date:   Wed, 24 Mar 2021 17:47:12 -0300
From:   André Almeida <andrealmeid@...labora.com>
To:     Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com>
Cc:     Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, smcv@...labora.com,
        kernel@...labora.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Daniel Rosenberg <drosen@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 4/4] docs: tmpfs: Add casefold options

Hi Gabriel,

Às 19:19 de 23/03/21, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi escreveu:
> André Almeida <andrealmeid@...labora.com> writes:
> 
>> Document mounting options to enable casefold support in tmpfs.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: André Almeida <andrealmeid@...labora.com>
>> ---
>>   Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>   1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst
>> index 0408c245785e..84c87c309bd7 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst
>> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst
>> @@ -170,6 +170,32 @@ So 'mount -t tmpfs -o size=10G,nr_inodes=10k,mode=700 tmpfs /mytmpfs'
>>   will give you tmpfs instance on /mytmpfs which can allocate 10GB
>>   RAM/SWAP in 10240 inodes and it is only accessible by root.
>>   
>> +tmpfs has the following mounting options for case-insesitive lookups support:
>> +
>> +=========   ==============================================================
>> +casefold    Enable casefold support at this mount point using the given
>> +            argument as enconding. Currently only utf8 encondings are supported.
>> +cf_strict   Enable strict casefolding at this mouting point (disabled by
>> +            default). This means that invalid strings should be reject by the
>> +            file system.
> 
> strict mode refers to the encoding, not exactly casefold.  Maybe we
> could have a parameter encoding_flags that accepts the flag 'strict'.
> This would make it closer to the ext4 interface.

What are the other enconding flags? Or is this more about having a 
properly extensible interface?

> Alternatively, call this option strict_encoding.
> 

Thanks,
	André