From: root@umibox.hanse.de (Bernd Meyer) Subject: Re: Filesystems for people providing packets Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1993 14:09:19 GMT
bogstad@blaze.cs.jhu.edu (Bill Bogstad) writes:
>In article <1993Jan24.032251.22453@umibox.hanse.de> root@umibox.hanse.de (Bernd Meyer) writes:
> A better solution in my opinion is to use shorter filenames
>(pgup-window.h for example). Until efs, xfs or some other filesystem with
>longer names becomes the "standard" Linux filesystem; it is preferable that
>packages be usable on matter which filesystem the receipient uses. If you
>are dealing with a package written by someone else whose distributor assumes
>longer names then this may be more difficult, but I still think it is
>preferable.
Packages with long names work on the minix-fs close to all of the time. This
is because the minix-fs doesn't care about more than the first 14 or so
characters. Thus "This_is_a_very_silly_and_far_to_long_name" would be
truncated to "This_is_a_very" on a minix fs. Still if a program asks for
the first name, the fs would happily deliver that file.
Bernie
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