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On Nov 22, 2004, at 8:06 AM, Pavel Cahyna wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 16:01:37 +0000, Jason Thorpe wrote:
>
>> Honestly, I think we need to reserve a chunk of space in the FFS
>> superblock to specify the encoding that the file system is using.
>
> What would be this good for?

Making it possible for the file system to self-describe.  The "what 
we've got" part of the equation.  Legacy file systems that don't 
specify this can continue their free-for-all wrt. encoding that makes 
this problem difficult to solve.  New file systems will have a 
reasonable default encoding (UTF-8), and it can be set at newfs time to 
an alternate encoding or "none" (i.e. the legacy case).

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>


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