Roland Mainz wrote: > Tim Haley wrote: > > Roland Mainz wrote: > > > Bart Smaalders wrote: > > >> Marcus Sundman 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. > > > > > > Does ZFS convert the strings to UTF-8 in this case or will it just store > > > the multibyte sequence unmodified ? > > > > > ZFS doesn't muck with names it is sent when storing them on-disk. The > > on-disk name is exactly the sequence of bytes provided to the open(), > > creat(), etc. If normalization options are chosen, it may do some > > manipulation of the byte strings *when comparing* names, but the on-disk > > name should be untouched from what the user requested. > > Ok... that was the part which I was _praying_ for... :-) > > ... just some background (for those who may be puzzled by the statement > above): The conversion to Unicode is not always "lossless" (Unicode is > sometimes marketed as > "convert-any-encoding-to-unicode-without-loosing-any-information") ... > for example if you have a mixed-language ISO-2022 character sequence the > conversion to Unicode will use the language information itself
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