Hey Andi, On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 07:55:59AM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > Ben Myers <bpm@xxxxxxx> writes: > > > > Strings are normalized using a trie that stores the relevant > > information. The trie itself is about 250kB in size, and lives in a > > separate module. > > So 250kB bloat -- and what does this fix exactly? We're trying to address the size issue by only loading the module when it's needed, but yeah it's big. Open to suggestions on how best to deal with that. I understand the sticker shock. > Someone putting random ligatures into their file names and expecting > the file to be the same as before. Can't they just not do that? The ligature example that Olaf gave might seem kind of trivial, but for other characters and languages could it be more significant? As far as telling the customer "don't do that", my guess is that they would just go elsewhere. There are several other options for filesystems that support unicode. Thanks, Ben -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
