On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 09:21:36AM -0800, Daniel Lee wrote:
> This patch addresses an issue where some files in case-insensitive
> directories become inaccessible due to changes in how the kernel function,
> utf8_casefold(), generates case-folded strings from the commit 5c26d2f1d3f5
> ("unicode: Don't special case ignorable code points").That also breaks all other direct hashed and needs to be fixed. > > F2FS uses these case-folded names to calculate hash values for locating > dentries and stores them on disk. Since utf8_casefold() can produce > different output across kernel versions, stored hash values and newly > calculated hash values may differ. This results in affected files no > longer being found via the hash-based lookup. > > To resolve this, the patch introduces a linear search fallback. > If the initial hash-based search fails, F2FS will sequentially scan the > directory entries. That means you have really bad worst case behavior for negative lookups. I don' think this is in any way a good idea. _______________________________________________ Linux-f2fs-devel mailing list Linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-f2fs-devel
