Re: [PATCH] Sanitize filesystem NLS handling

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:

> It is exposed as a mount parameter and kernel configuration option only for
> fat and smbfs (the two filesystems that my patch touches for this matter), and
> both of these filesystems come from DOS days, where there was one codepage for
> a given country. So, for me, it made sense to glue these two parameters,
> because they both should be set to this codepage. The contrary would (AFAIK)
> only make sense if one gets floppies from France, but communicates with Polish
> SMB servers. It is a very rare situation, isn't it? Or do you know any other
> example where it would clearly make sense to have different defaults for fat
> and smbfs?

hfs has a codepage option as well, but I don't know its default in the 
various countries, but it could be different from DOS.

bye, Roman
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