Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 10:21:25 -0700 From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> Subject: Re: extending the maximum filename length Message-ID: <20170908172125.GB1152@albert.catwhisker.org> In-Reply-To: <0154558d-b2ad-af97-3960-3e392678f709@freebsd.org> References: <0154558d-b2ad-af97-3960-3e392678f709@freebsd.org>
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--a1HG+NiNtj/qClJd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 01:15:31AM +0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > Has anyone using freeBSD ever increased NAME_MAX (filename maximum=20 > length) and have any experience with it? >=20 > We ($JOB) would recompile the entire system so intra-system=20 > compatibility would probably be ok, and we have our own filesystem=20 > which would support it. >=20 > But I wonder if anyone has tried it and hit unexpected problems. > .... Not *strictly* a "filename length" issue, but one thing I (think I) recall encountering a while back was an (88-character?) upper limit on the length of the full pathname of a mount point. So that could prove ... annoying (if I actually recall correctly, and the situation has not changed since). Peace, David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org http://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/donald-trump-playbook-1.4265374 See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key. --a1HG+NiNtj/qClJd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQF8BAEBCgBmBQJZstGVXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXRDQ0I3Q0VGOTE3QTgwMUY0MzA2NEQ3N0Ix NTM5Q0M0MEEwNDlFRTE3AAoJEBU5zECgSe4XVDsH/34YWgxiN5BjDjtNW6ASQOhX GJbk/1godfPKE6KkEC3szCZvJNqdECOzzQ5cyFoYcUWhcr3e64NInYNzMdmurcst guOjduc1wMDxjK1LsVLAjJQk5WujXuWlCXl6eOgovElG1rVND5yBsQH79UYdRq25 F7glRh38jIdeJ+6PHDqXFoIJKgRCxkbJvcJ/XXaDjo/rn5LL7axBcVPMOaqy4rF5 OeA1/LBctaNKsNX8NcPuSJQMaXKiZr6Yc3xonxXys62tUs//tuX/zXZgEvZE8sSY Yv1YLuQo+n5bH5S1v4A8yQDBP4Y/9OKvmlvoj2qaqkBQIPXXFBEyroiaN0o+YxI= =IHUL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --a1HG+NiNtj/qClJd--
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