From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id n4GKP4J0140285 for ; Sat, 16 May 2009 15:25:07 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 955F528EE32 for ; Sat, 16 May 2009 13:25:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [18.85.46.34]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id gcfAHgBgzJdyCh3j for ; Sat, 16 May 2009 13:25:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 16:25:11 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: quick question about filename length Message-ID: <20090516202511.GA28186@infradead.org> References: <554e24be0905160915l49ff901bn41e4332349c555bc@mail.gmail.com> <4A0EF228.3010702@sandeen.net> <554e24be0905161106x6a62b7bldc65325ac4102628@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <554e24be0905161106x6a62b7bldc65325ac4102628@mail.gmail.com> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Chris Walker Cc: Eric Sandeen , xfs@oss.sgi.com On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 02:06:22PM -0400, Chris Walker wrote: > Thanks for you quick reply, Eric. > > I have a user who is having filenames (path+filename) cut off at 255 > characters midway through a simulation -- but the problem must be > elsewhere XFS doesn't actually see the whole filename in normal operation (except for copying out the data out of symbolic links), as the resolution to individual components is done by the VFS. Long file name should work just fine on Linux and do in my test. Maybe some buffer is sized using incorrect in userspace? _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs