linux-kernel - Re: Unicode conversion issue

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=wi+ZB4fNiMTHOYo2__-NnBXryQwxJ_bHN+cUDsfBBt_MA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 13:25:30 -0800
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...e.de>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>, 
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "hanqi@...o.com" <hanqi@...o.com>, 
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Subject: Re: Unicode conversion issue

On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 at 13:11, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...e.de> wrote:
>
> This solves it for directories with inlined dirents
> (FI_INLINE_DENTRY). but for large directories, we use fname->hash to
> find the right block to start the search.

Grr. Dammit, the hash should always have been the original hash of the
original actual case-preserving entry.

Oh well. I'll continue to just absolutely hate case-folding, because
while I suspect that it *could* be done correctly, I have yet to ever
actually see any filesystem that did so.

            Linus