* MAX_NAME in jffs2
@ 2002-07-25 19:14 Der Herr Hofrat
2002-07-30 22:37 ` David Woodhouse
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From: Der Herr Hofrat @ 2002-07-25 19:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-mtd
HI !
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$) ?? There probably is hardly a case where this will realy
hurt, but a test bit it so I wondered what the reson for this 254 is...
thx !
hofrat
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* Re: MAX_NAME in jffs2
2002-07-25 19:14 MAX_NAME in jffs2 Der Herr Hofrat
@ 2002-07-30 22:37 ` David Woodhouse
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From: David Woodhouse @ 2002-07-30 22:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Der Herr Hofrat; +Cc: linux-mtd
der.herr@mail.hofr.at said:
>
> is there a particular reson for jffs and jffs2 to have a 254
> character filename limit and ext2/ext3/reiserfs 255 (probably others to -
> excluding minix/msdos/M$) ?? 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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