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| author | Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com> | 2019-04-28 16:53:08 -0400 |
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| committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2019-04-28 16:53:08 -0400 |
| commit | 1384050b7a9bf99b3a863c0937748c9eb9fb025e (patch) | |
| tree | 73aa972ec4480696942516214601fe62121936e4 /misc | |
| parent | f61719cf4796d45a3fb986d3cf974d0552acb09c (diff) | |
| download | e2fsprogs-1384050b7a9bf99b3a863c0937748c9eb9fb025e.tar.gz | |
ext4.5.in: document design changes on the casefold attribute
Document the fact that the encoding support is only used by directories
with the +F attribute.
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'misc')
| -rw-r--r-- | misc/ext4.5.in | 10 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/misc/ext4.5.in b/misc/ext4.5.in index ee5e1709..2a8ce1e2 100644 --- a/misc/ext4.5.in +++ b/misc/ext4.5.in @@ -154,12 +154,10 @@ option. .B fname_encoding .br This ext4 feature provides file system level character encoding support -for files and directories name. This feature is name-preserving on the -disk, but it allows applications to lookup for a file in the file system -using any encoding equivalent version of the file name. - -This feature is required to perform in-kernel case-insensitive file -name lookups. +for directories with the casefold (+F) flag enabled. This feature is +name-preserving on the disk, but it allows applications to lookup for a +file in the file system using an encoding equivalent version of the file +name. .TP .B has_journal .br |