Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 19:23:13 -0500 From: Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: old bug: mount_nfs path/name is limited to 88 chars Message-ID: <54BD9FF1.5090202@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <99F7DA1A-66EB-4F69-BAFA-0D72E4207248@gmail.com> References: <1401700998.16283447.1421681564732.JavaMail.root@uoguelph.ca> <201501191544.t0JFiP7O027952@mech-as221.men.bris.ac.uk> <CAKFCL4Vv5Uf7p737uE-riDBw57KTJ7r7QSmn7Bj7i=gn1yo5UA@mail.gmail.com> <99F7DA1A-66EB-4F69-BAFA-0D72E4207248@gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 2015-01-19 16:20, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Jan 19, 2015, at 8:46, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk> >> wrote: >> >>> So perhaps changing MNAMELEN will break statfs(2) on >>> -stable too? >>> >> >> I believe the context there is not so much "-current is special", as >> "changing it for everyone is bad news" (and this would necessarily need to >> originate in -current). > > A compat layer needs to be created for all of the affected syscalls, and the change needs to be made. That’s it in a nutshell. > > Doing it in 11 makes sense since there is a compat layer for 10 now… if I knew all of the steps I would happily do them as annoys me from time to time as well with the path length issue. > > Thanks! > Especially with ZFS, I find I have a lot more mounts now, under longer and longer path names, and then I have .zfs/snapshots/snapshotnamehere/path/to/file etc. Definitely a +1 for "this is something we need for 11" -- Allan Jude [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJUvZ/zAAoJEJrBFpNRJZKf7LQP/ix7WdEbA6idiy68IV8BAlr2 RA3zwm7D1xMy0aIQ8aa18QaYESqM0Hn8sRYgXV2ATfwcMjsF1c3KNz6CaCIeF3oQ +kDN5CPQZ/Azbx+Kr60IieEBDvP9IcKN8HkqDsc6UMEsUhzYJbYT901qawn+Aisx SsFdpo86T7wXGvbgTulLZmgrlGgipC7EbO0BMj2kcZe6EzqWi3F1AI4JDzjhPp7v qE+Z78VTyxc96kdd98T1DcNJ3jNt2TetJzja9Iesaga9uSvAyoga2cVhwKMDR2dO nyhfRomLuQmlwmc9lQdBkuPZKeIq6kgXBXYbh768+mA+weGgkFbFoxO2+VhNpJEo MpW93/bxjTv+jqj9da4FpJiWdoBLc22WyPvZmB30Qk8efPr0p3O5vPhP/usztXvm kt4O2Qx5xS0V+4Rcmgsh4QRF9DxI1qmEIKwUcZddQIr4zM1/vLBe61Z5rGWnxlr0 5XIhYu00EumSu9YYWoaQ9Ty70HC8qBBmIgXHojFtO9sTnO71IoivjYBmmEiAOaSo XMz3/BTJcul+8BsRn5FD+MDabRhG9d1TW70nN9Xj8wFq//fTaPP9c7E2LAUknCjR 5cCKD8/lnfNDsM20WvOIH6mFt3C3dQ2y6Fuse8YWvysFROuqkxQPcH5aAI9pp1CT AJUrSa35dc6Hw8ihDwGA =fOof -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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