From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Der Herr Hofrat <der.herr@mail.hofr.at>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: MAX_NAME in jffs2
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 23:37:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14897.1028068654@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200207251914.g6PJEbs25931@hofr.at>
der.herr@mail.hofr.at said:
>
> is there a particular reson for jffs and jffs2 to have a 254
> character filename limit and ext2/ext3/reiserfs 255 (probably others to -
> excluding minix/msdos/M$) ?? There probably is hardly a case where this
> will realy hurt, but a test bit it so I wondered what the reson for this
> 254 is...
ISTR there may have been a reason in JFFS, but I can't remember it. JFFS2
just inherited it -- one of the few things that hasn't actually changed. We
want to keep file names relatively short because dirent nodes can't be
split across eraseblock boundaries.
--
dwmw2
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2002-07-25 19:14 MAX_NAME in jffs2 Der Herr Hofrat
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