Re: XFS v1.1 and Linux

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>]

On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 08:37, darren.miller@philips.com 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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