[OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS allowed characters (valid characters)
Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
openindiana at nedharvey.com
Sun Sep 14 13:42:25 UTC 2014
> From: Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
> [mailto:openindiana at nedharvey.com]
>
> Is ZFS using Unicode or ASCII? Or something else?
>
> Are there disallowed characters? '\0' or @ or '/' or anything else? I know
> these characters generally would be *difficult* to use just because of
> limitations of your application environment (for example, bash will always
> parse the '/' as a directory delimiter, but at least in hfs+, that character isn't
> actually forbidden by the filesystem.) So I'm not asking which characters
> would be *practically* difficult to use, I'm asking which characters are *valid*
> according to the filesystem itself.
Are the valid characters the same for filesystem names, and filenames? (e.g. mountpoints & zvol's, versus directories and files)
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