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- From: kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Filesystems for people providing packets
- Message-ID: <5DVZXB5w165w@kf8nh.wariat.org>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 12:21:15 EST
- References: <1993Jan24.032251.22453@umibox.hanse.de>
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- Organization: Brandon S. Allbery's Personal System
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- root@umibox.hanse.de (Bernd Meyer) writes:
- > 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.
-
- Why do you need to rename files with short names? You don't want to do that
- anyway: if you do, you have to edit patch files to change the names of
- files to match your personal longnames mapping.
-
- > 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.
-
- Until it unpacks both "page_up_window.c" and "page_up_window.h" into the
- same directory, at which point the longnames-fs snobs are happy and the
- minix-fs types get the royal shaft. And since the minix FS is still the
- standard one, this is not a good idea at all.
-
- > 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...
-
- I doubt "thousands" of people run xiafs/extfs instead of minix fs.
-
- ++Brandon
-
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