Bug#477357: linux-image-2.6.24-1-686: unified mount option format for iocharset/nls/utf8/...

["Michal Suchanek" <michal.suchanek@ruk.cuni.cz>]

Package: linux-image-2.6.24-1-686
Version: 2.6.24-5
Severity: wishlist


Some filesystem allow translating filenames so that the filenames
retrieved from the kernel match a chosen locale and the filenames stored
on the media match the filesystem standard.

These include vfat, smbfs, cifs, ntfs, ncpfs.

The name and format of the mount option that sets the conversion varies
between filesystems, and even different versions of the same filesystem.

It sould not be too hard to provide an alias for the option that has the
same name and format for all filesystems.

Thanks

Michal


-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23.3-src (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.24-1-686 depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.20     Debian configuration management sy
ii  initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.92       tools for generating an initramfs
ii  module-init-tools             3.4-1      tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  yaird [linux-initramfs-tool]  0.0.12-25  Yet Another mkInitRD

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.24-1-686 recommends:
ii  libc6-i686                    2.7-10     GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i

-- debconf information excluded