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- From: rafetmad@cheshire.oxy.edu (David Giller)
- Subject: Re: Filesystems for people providing packets
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.023948.4305@cheshire.oxy.edu>
- Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041
- References: <1993Jan24.032251.22453@umibox.hanse.de> <1993Jan26.000802.14279@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 02:39:48 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- bogstad@blaze.cs.jhu.edu (Bill Bogstad) wrote:
- >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.
-
- In addition, for those of us using the minix filesystem for stability,
- we are fased with the problem that if there is, to extend the example,
- a page-up-window.c and page-up-window.h, whichever one is second will
- overwrite the first with no error when untarring. This is unavoidable
- on packages which originated outside Linux, but it would be nice if
- people would provide for the 14-char limit that is still common on
- UNIX systems today.
-
- -Dave
-
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