Bart Smaalders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm unable to find more info about this. E.g., what does "reject > > file names" mean in practice? E.g., if a program tries to create a > > file using an utf8-incompatible filename, what happens? Does the > > fopen() fail? Would this normally be a problem? E.g., do tar and > > similar programs convert utf8-incompatible filenames to utf8 upon > > extraction if my locale (or wherever the fs encoding is taken from) > > is set to use utf-8? If they don't, then what happens with archives > > containing utf8-incompatible filenames? > > > Note that the normal ZFS behavior is exactly what you'd expect: you > get the filenames you wanted; the same ones back you put in.
OK, thanks. I still haven't got any answer to my original question, though. I.e., is there some way to know what text the filename is, or do I have to make a more or less wild guess what encoding the program that created the file used? OK, if I use utf8only then I know that all filenames can be interpreted as UTF-8. However, that's completely unacceptable for me, since I'd much rather have an important file with an incomprehensible filename than not have that important file at all. Also, what about non-UTF-8 encodings? E.g., is it possible to know whether 0xe4 is "ä" (as in iso-8859-1) or "ф" (as in iso-8859-5)? > The trick is that in order to support such things as > casesensitivity=false for CIFS, the OS needs to know what characters > are uppercase vs lowercase, which means it needs to know about > encodings, and reject codepoints which cannot be classified as > uppercase vs lowercase. I don't see why the OS would care about that. Isn't that the job of the CIFS daemon? As a matter of fact I don't see why the OS would need to know how to decode any filename-bytes to text. However, I firmly believe that user applications should have that opportunity. If the encoding of filenames is not known (explicitly or implicitly) then applications don't have that opportunity. - Marcus _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
