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August 19-21 - Co-Located Events
August 21-23 - Conference
Hilton San Diego Bayfront - San Diego, CA
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Friday, August 23 • 2:25pm - 3:00pm
Ext4: A Case-insensitive Linux Filesystem - Gabriel Krisman Bertazi, Collabora

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High performance internationalization support is coming to the main Linux filesystems. Historically, file and directory names have always been treated as opaque byte sequences by Unix kernels, in opposition to what was always done in Windows and MacOS. This design decision reduces the complexity of filesystem implementations, allowing them to defer meaning (encoding) to upper userspace layers, but it falls short, on the other hand, when the encoding information is required in kernelspace, for instance when case-insensitive filesystem lookups are needed. This talk will present the reasoning and use cases for in-kernel case-insensitive name lookups and the new Unicode interface for Ext4 that is being merged in the Mainline Linux kernel.

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Gabriel Krisman Bertazi

Senior Software Engineer, Collabora
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi is a Senior Software Engineer with the Collabora Core Kernel team. He works all around the kernel to implement features and fix bugs to make Linux a successful platform for any device, be it a gaming platform or the operating system of choice for Cloud pro... Read More →


Friday August 23, 2019 2:25pm - 3:00pm PDT
Indigo D
  Linux Systems
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