extending the maximum filename length (pointer to patch)[request for input]

Conrad Meyer cem at freebsd.org
Tue Sep 12 22:57:02 UTC 2017


On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 2:23 PM, Rainer Duffner <rainer at ultra-secure.de> wrote:
> And there’s also this bug:
>
>
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=215067
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> "g_dev_taste: make_dev_p() failed on importing pool with snapshots with long
> names“
>
>
>
> But maybe that has nothing to do with it.

Hi Rainer,

Yes, I think that one is mostly orthogonal to the filesystem path
lengths.  Still, it might also be nice to expand that one while we're
there.

ino64 was nice enough to bump MNAMELEN from 88 to 1024 and d_namlen to
16 bits, so we don't have to expand those.

Best,
Conrad


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