Re: [CFT][PATCH] ext2 directories in pagecache

Andreas Dilger
2000-09-26T23:19:22Z

Al Viro writes:
> Folks, give it a try - just keep decent backups. Similar code will
> have to go into UFS in 2.4 and that (ext2) variant may be of interest for
> 2.4.<late>/2.5.<early> timeframe.

Haven't tested it yet, but just reading over the patch - in ext2_lookup():

if (dentry->d_name.len > UFS_MAXNAMLEN)
return ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG)

should probably be changed back to:

if (dentry->d_name.len > EXT2_NAME_LEN)
return ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG)

Cheers, Andreas
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