On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 08:37, darren.miller@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Now, the requirement comes in, due to a rank amateur creating a computer
> generated system
> which creates files in excess of 400 characters in filename length.
>
> What we need to know is how if any is it possible to support these
> ridiculous files on our Linux machine,
> it presently works fine on HPUX (vxfs) and so we are trying to get these
> onto Linux.
In XFS, we have:
/*
* MAXNAMELEN is the length (including the terminating null) of
* the longest permissible file (component) name.
*/
#define MAXNAMELEN 256
Ext2 has
#define EXT2_NAME_LEN 255
and reiserfs:
#define REISERFS_MAX_NAME_LEN(block_size) 255
so I'm afraid that's your answer.
-Eric
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