From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 15 16:15:46 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A41116A418 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:15:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (unknown [IPv6:2a01:170:102f::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B545613C458 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:15:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m1FGFiZt028669; Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:15:44 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id m1FGFhuI028668; Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:15:43 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:15:43 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200802151615.m1FGFhuI028668@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, deeptech71@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <47B59883.6040403@gmail.com> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-chat User-Agent: tin/1.8.3-20070201 ("Scotasay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/6.2-STABLE-20070808 (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:15:44 +0100 (CET) Cc: Subject: Re: What's up with the symlinks in the 7.0-RC2 ISO images? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, deeptech71@gmail.com List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:15:46 -0000 deeptech71@gmail.com wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Well, someone might want to look at the "doc" CD on Windows > > (e.g if he's offline and needs to loo at the docs before > > installing FreeBSD). > > Or maybe someone might want to make a FreeBSD-7.0-RC2 DVD, > and a FreeBSD installation is too far away... The symlinks don't prevent him from doing that. > > However: > > > > - The symlinks aren't required to read the docs. They're > > only for convenience. > > Symlinks also aren't required for anything else: hard links work fine, > and are more compatible. You can't make hardlinks to directories. > > - All the ISO images -- including the doc one -- are built > > with MS-Joliet extensions (in addition to RockRidge), so > > long file names etc. work fine on Windows, too. > > Actually, long file names etc. work fine on Windows without the > MS-Joliet extensions and with ISO level 2 or 3 Yeah, up to 31 characters, which isn't really long, and you still have a bunch of other restrictions, e.g. only upper- case letters, digits and underscore are allowed, no leading dots, there's a limit to the directory depth, and so on. So you still need MS-Joliet extensions. > If Windows-readability is a higher priority than DOS-readability > (definitely!), then lose the symlinks. The symlinks don't hurt Windows-readability at all. There's nothing that needs to be fixed. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "File names are infinite in length, where infinity is set to 255 characters." -- Peter Collinson, "The Unix File System"