> -----Original Message----- > From: linux-fsdevel-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-fsdevel- > owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dave Chinner > Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 7:10 PM > To: Olaf Weber > Cc: Ben Myers; linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; tinguely@xxxxxxx; xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [RFC v2] Unicode/UTF-8 support for XFS > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 03:21:04PM +0200, Olaf Weber wrote: > > On 23-09-14 00:26, Dave Chinner wrote: > > >On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 02:56:50PM -0500, Ben Myers wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > >>TODO: Store the unicode version number of the filesystem on disk in > > >>the super block. > > > > > >So, if the filesystem has to store the specific unicode version it > > >was created with so that we know what version to put in trie lookups, > > >again I'll ask: why are we loading the trie as a generic kernel > > >module and not as metadata in the filesystem that is demand paged and > > >cached? > > > > This way the trie can be shared, and the code using it is not > > entangled with the XFS code. > > The trie parsing code can still be common - just the location and contents of the data is > determined by the end-user. > Both these approaches can co-exists (as I recall was done in Windows). A system may have "a default trie" and a caller (name space) can provide its own... -- 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
