On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 10:21 AM, David Wolfskill <da...@catwhisker.org> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 01:15:31AM +0800, Julian Elischer wrote: >> Has anyone using freeBSD ever increased NAME_MAX (filename maximum >> length) and have any experience with it? >> >> We ($JOB) would recompile the entire system so intra-system >> compatibility would probably be ok, and we have our own filesystem >> which would support it. >> >> But I wonder if anyone has tried it and hit unexpected problems. >> .... > > Not *strictly* a "filename length" issue, but one thing I (think > I) recall encountering a while back was an (88-character?) upper > limit on the length of the full pathname of a mount point. > > So that could prove ... annoying (if I actually recall correctly, > and the situation has not changed since).
Hi David, I think mountpoint name length is largely an orthogonal issue. Fortunately, the 88 character limit (MNAMELEN) was already addressed recently (bumped to 1024) with the ino64 project. Best, Conrad _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
