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Date:      Tue, 23 Dec 1997 12:11:52 +0300
From:      Dmitrij Tejblum <dima@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru>
Cc:        luoqi@watermarkgroup.com (Luoqi Chen), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: msdosfs win95 long file name support 
Message-ID:  <199712230911.MAA00382@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 Dec 1997 03:36:23 %2B0300."

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I wrote:
> > 
> > Their long file name support is not very well designed too. For instance,
> > if we are to create a file with long file name, we need to find a unique
> > 8.3 name. The logical place is to do that is in the lookup code, where we
> > traverse the whole directory. NetBSD's code instead does that in vnops code,
> > which means that you need to go through the directory TWICE. This is a
> > Bad Thing(TM) if the directory is very large (say, windows/system :)
> 
> Oh, indeed, your way seems much better than the NetBSD's. Congratulations.

On second thought... After 'touch AAAAA~1' and 'touch AA~99999' you will 
unable to create any long filename started with 'aa'. I am not sure if it is a 
Good Thing(TM).

(Also, my windows/system is not very large. It is only 1 cluster in length :)

Dima





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