From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 18 00:41:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA03448 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 00:41:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from diablo.ppp.de (diablo.ppp.de [193.141.101.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA03439 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 00:41:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.de by diablo.ppp.de with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0vE9Yb-000QpDC; Fri, 18 Oct 96 08:41 MET Received: from allegro.lemis.de (grog@allegro.lemis.de [192.109.197.134]) by freebie.lemis.de (8.7.6/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA23223; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 09:14:39 +0200 (MET DST) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Received: (grog@localhost) by allegro.lemis.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id JAA24841; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 09:14:40 +0200 Message-Id: <199610180714.JAA24841@allegro.lemis.de> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Filesystem To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 09:14:40 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions) In-Reply-To: from "Doug White" at Oct 16, 96 11:24:28 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Doug White writes: > > On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, W Mark Maynard II wrote: > >> Can someone tell me what filesystem FreeBSD uses? Also, are there any >> special limitations (max partition size, max file size, filename length >> restrictions, etc.)? > > FreeBSD uses a modified Berkeley UFS for it's native filesystem. > > Filenames are pretty much free-form, I believe there is a limit at 255 > characters or so, not sure there. Yes, the limit is imposed by the fact that the length is stored in a single byte. File names may consist of *any* character, printable or not, except /, which is used as a directory delimiter. Greg