Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:15:43 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, deeptech71@gmail.com Subject: Re: What's up with the symlinks in the 7.0-RC2 ISO images? Message-ID: <200802151615.m1FGFhuI028668@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <47B59883.6040403@gmail.com>
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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"
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