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- From: root@umibox.hanse.de (Bernd Meyer)
- Subject: Filesystems for people providing packets
- Organization: Linux Box standing around in Hamburg, Germany
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 03:22:51 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.032251.22453@umibox.hanse.de>
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- Hello,
-
- I would once like to speak up with a suggestion on how somebody else should
- do something (never thought I would :-)
-
- It's this:
- I want to encourage everyone who plans to upload any of his works to
- ftp-sites to use a file system that is NOT the minix one. The reason is that
- while names like "page-up-window" match the request "page-up-window.h" when
- used on that fs, it is a nightmare for everybody using a fs with long names
- to rename all the files with truncated names.
- I would strongly suggest that you use efs or maybe xfs, because the problem
- is not given the other way round - a long filename untarred into a minix-fs
- will be shortened and still matched.
-
- Thanks to everybody who did a great job so far. This
- is not meant as criticism, but as a suggestion. And
- yes, I did rename everything several times, but I
- just think it isn't necessary that hundreds if not
- thousands of people do this...
-
- Bernie
-
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