Dell Fluid File System Version 5.0 Support Matrix

NAS Access

FluidFS v5.x supports the Unicode /UTF-8 encoding, allowing concurrent access from any UTF-8 compatible client. All NAS interfaces expect UTF-8 characters for file, folder/directory, share, and other names.

Consequently, all names are internally maintained and managed in UTF-8 format. While individual file and directory names are each limited to 255 bytes, the number of characters might be further limited, due to the variable-width nature of the UTF-8 encoding.

Management Access

Management data items, such as volume names, share names, directory names, user names, description fields, and so on, are all maintained in UTF-8 format.

For CLI access, UTF-8 terminal applications, such as XTERM, should be used. Terminal applications that do not support UTF-8 characters, such as KTERM, are not recommended.