Re: Filenames causing problems in JFS

Hmmm maybe this is what the Native Language support kernel modules are for?

Austin

Sanjay Darisi wrote:
>
>
> I'm using rsync to copy a directory from a windows server. This
> directory is very big and has thousands of files. Some of the files have
> some non-common ASCII characters in their filenames. I'm copying these
> files to a JFS filesystem based external storage. Whenever kernel
> encounters such characters in the filenames, it throws up messages like
> this in /var/log/messages.
>
> jfs_strtoUCS: char2uni returned -22.
> charset = iso8859-1, char = 0x84
>
> So, there are thousands of such messages in the log file. Apparently,
> these files are written by Mac computers to the windows server. Anyways,
> Windows was able to recognize the characters and store them properly. I
> believe its filesystem limitation, am I not correct? Is it just a
> parameter tweak in JFS or is it an inherent limitation in JFS and can't
> be changed. Does this limitation exist in ext3 too? 'cos if doesn't then
> I will change the filesystem to ext3.
>
> Or am I in the wrong impression that this unicode conversion is a
> limitation of filesystem? Any ideas ???
>
> My last option is to rename these files on windows server. Any ideas how
> to write such a script that parses all the filenames in a directory
> (recursively) and substitute few characters with some other common
> characters? I'm sure it will be painful for me to find out all such
> characters (and thier hex codes) from the log file.
>
>
> Sanjay
>
> http://www.techiesabode.com/
>
>

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