Re: [PATCH] Sanitize filesystem NLS handling

From: OGAWA Hirofumi
Date: Mon Mar 19 2007 - 13:26:30 EST


"Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> But, anyway, this is a separate issue that my patch doesn't attempt to
> correct. The conclusion so far is that we disagree, and that there are
> situations where using utf8 iocharset is the least of all evils, so the
> warning is not justified enough. Reproducible testcase:

Again, I don't care about read at all. And why don't you use "utf8"
option, instead of "iocharset=utf8". "iocharset=utf8" is warned until
it is fixed. The "utf8" also doesn't work correctly in some case though.

>> I'm talking about two filesystems on a system here, not two encoding
>> on one filesystem.
>
> I am also talking about this. Mounting two filesystems with different
> iocharsets is insane, because this will result in one of the following outcomes:
>
> 1) "ls" will show wrong characters in filenames on one of the filesystems
> 2) one of the two filesystems will contain wrong on-disk data for filenames,
> that, when misinterpreted by mounting with wrong iocharset, results in
> seemingly-correct output, but is misunderstood by the properly set up
> reference implementation (that's what is likely to happen with jfs in your
> example).

Because you didn't change the locale. And it is your policy, right?
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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