From: ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) Subject: Re: longer filenames dilemma Date: 27 May 1992 02:20:17 -0700
schmid@fb3-s7.math.TU-Berlin.DE (Gregor Schmid) writes:
>a lot of people have complained about the 14 chars file name length
>restriction and common answers are: take the kernel sources and fix
>it, the only incompatibility you get is that you are no longer able
>to use image distributions.
>That's fine with me, so I went ahead and tracked the problem down
>(I think) to
>#define MINIX_NAME_MAX 14
>in include/linux/minix_fs.h
It's amazing that a restriction like 14 characters has been used
when its ``so trivial'' to avoid :-)
I vaguely know about work on VFS. Will it eliminate short filenames?
Or should we go about assembling bootimage etc. with 254 character filenames
at tsx?
--Ajay Shah, (213)749-8133, ajayshah@usc.edu