From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from hr2.samba.org ([144.76.82.148]:28160 "EHLO hr2.samba.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964773AbeALQ5D (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jan 2018 11:57:03 -0500 Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 08:56:57 -0800 From: Jeremy Allison To: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi Cc: tytso@mit.edu, david@fromorbit.com, bpm@sgi.com, olaf@sgi.com, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, kernel@lists.collabora.co.uk, alvaro.soliverez@collabora.co.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 00/13] UTF-8 case insensitive lookups for EXT4 Message-ID: <20180112165657.GB208915@jra3> Reply-To: Jeremy Allison References: <20180112071234.29470-1-krisman@collabora.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180112071234.29470-1-krisman@collabora.co.uk> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 05:12:21AM -0200, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote: > Hi, > > In the past few months, I've been working to support case-insensitive > lookups of utf8 encoded strings, primarily for EXT4, and then for other > filesystems. This RFC uses the awesome UTF8 normalization > implementation done by the SGI guys in 2014, namely Olaf Weber and Ben > Myers, but it, unfortunately, never went upstream. That SGI effort was > made of 3 versions of an RFC submitted to this list, and the last > version was archived below: Just want to say thanks a *LOT* for this work. It would significantly help Samba and Windows interop. Now if we can only get the RichACL patch into the kernel.... :-). Cheers, Jeremy.