[OpenAFS-devel] AFS vs UNICODE

[Jeffrey Altman]

Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
> On Tue, 6 May 2008, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> 
>> The real problem with this problem is that once the new file server is
>> deployed and the salvager is run against the volumes the existing MacOS
>> X clients will fail to be able to read any files in AFS.   If anyone has
>> an idea of how to address the Unicode normalization problem going
>> forward that doesn't result in an interop failure for existing clients,
>> please say something.
> 
> I believe we discussed this issue when we designed extended directories
> way back in... 2005?  Old MacOS X clients here need to be treated in the
> same way as other legacy clients, getting an old, unmodified directory
> structure.

For Extended directories this won't be an issue.
I'm trying to solve the interop problem without extended directories
because we don't have them yet and I want MacOS X and Windows clients
to have interop now.