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- From: bogstad@blaze.cs.jhu.edu (Bill Bogstad)
- Subject: Re: Filesystems for people providing packets
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.000802.14279@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
- Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD
- References: <1993Jan24.032251.22453@umibox.hanse.de>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:08:02 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan24.032251.22453@umibox.hanse.de> root@umibox.hanse.de (Bernd Meyer) writes:
- >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.
-
- 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.
-
- Bill Bogstad
-