Re: XFS v1.1 and Linux

[Ragnar Kjørstad <xfs@ragnark.vestdata.no>]

On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 09:54:20AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> /*
>  * 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.

I believe reiserfs is able to handle names up to 4095 charecters
internally, but a lower limit is imposed because of VFS limitations. I
think there was a discussion on the reiserfs list on how this should be
handled; so if you need this feature you should post on reiserfs-dev and
linux-fs lists. 



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Ragnar Kjorstad
Big Storage