Re: JFS default behavior (was: UTF-8 in file systems? xfs/extfs/etc.)

[Jamie Lokier]

Andy Isaacson wrote:
> Why on earth is JFS worried about the filename, anyways?  Why has it
> *ever* had *any* behavior other than "string of bytes, delimited with /,
> terminated with \0" ?

Perhaps for the same reason that these other in-tree filesystems are
sensitive to the character encoding:

   Joliet (ISO-9660 extension), FAT/VFAT, NTFS, BeFS, SMBFS, CIFS.

Those filesystems will also fail, or give unexpected behaviour (such
as bytes being changed to '?'), if you pass them names which are not
in the appropriate encoding.

-- Jamie
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