Re: [PATCH v7 9/9] docs: tmpfs: Add casefold options

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>]

Hi,

On 10/17/24 2:14 PM, André Almeida wrote:
> Document mounting options for casefold support in tmpfs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
> Reviewed-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@suse.de>
> ---
> Changes from v3:
> - Rewrote note about "this doesn't enable casefold by default" (Krisman)
> ---
>  Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst
> index 56a26c843dbe964086503dda9b4e8066a1242d72..0385310f225808f55483413f2c69d3b6dc1b9913 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst
> @@ -241,6 +241,28 @@ So 'mount -t tmpfs -o size=10G,nr_inodes=10k,mode=700 tmpfs /mytmpfs'
>  will give you tmpfs instance on /mytmpfs which can allocate 10GB
>  RAM/SWAP in 10240 inodes and it is only accessible by root.
>  
> +tmpfs has the following mounting options for case-insensitive lookup support:
> +
> +================= ==============================================================
> +casefold          Enable casefold support at this mount point using the given
> +                  argument as the encoding standard. Currently only UTF-8
> +                  encodings are supported. If no argument is used, it will load
> +                  the latest UTF-8 encoding available.
> +strict_encoding   Enable strict encoding at this mount point (disabled by
> +                  default). In this mode, the filesystem refuses to create file
> +                  and directory with names containing invalid UTF-8 characters.
> +================= ==============================================================
> +
> +This option doesn't render the entire filesystem case-insensitive. One needs to
> +still set the casefold flag per directory, by flipping +F attribute in an empty

I would say:                                     flipping the +F attribute

> +directory. Nevertheless, new directories will inherit the attribute. The
> +mountpoint itself cannot be made case-insensitive.
> +
> +Example::
> +
> +    $ mount -t tmpfs -o casefold=utf8-12.1.0,strict_encoding fs_name /mytmpfs
> +    $ mount -t tmpfs -o casefold fs_name /mytmpfs
> +
>  
>  :Author:
>     Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>, 1.12.01
> @@ -250,3 +272,5 @@ RAM/SWAP in 10240 inodes and it is only accessible by root.
>     KOSAKI Motohiro, 16 Mar 2010
>  :Updated:
>     Chris Down, 13 July 2020
> +:Updated:
> +   André Almeida, 23 Aug 2024
> 

Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>

Thanks.

-- 
~Randy