From 1384050b7a9bf99b3a863c0937748c9eb9fb025e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2019 16:53:08 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o --- misc/ext4.5.in | 10 ++++------ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/misc/ext4.5.in b/misc/ext4.5.in index ee5e17097..2a8ce1e2f 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 -- 2.39.2