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- Subject: Long filenames
- From: chanson@mtlookitthat.chi.il.us (Chris Hanson)
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 17:35:04 CDT
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- Hi! Can anyone point me to some info (or tell me themselves) on how to
- implement long filenames for minix? [I know someone's done it -- one
- of the dudes in the 'MINIX vs LINUX' discussion mentioned it.] I'm
- thinking that 30 chars or 62 chars shouldn't be that hard (we'd be
- keeping a dir_entry at an even multiple of 16 bytes), but I know it'll
- involve more than just recompiling the kernel with MAX_NAME changed.
- Will I need to make new filesystems and move everything to them? Or is
- a compatibility hack (such as puting an optional fstype flag or a
- different magic number in a device's superblock to tell whether it has
- long or standard pathnames) trivial? I really haven't modified my
- kernel from what I got a month ago when I bought Minix, if that helps
- any. Thanx for any and all help and/or pointers.
-
- C-YA,
- Chris
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