From: joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) Subject: Re: Aww, do I hafta? Date: 9 Feb 1992 03:41:02 GMT
In article <48432@mimsy.umd.edu> jds@cs.umd.edu (James da Silva) writes:
> [re filename lengths]
>So, the question is, how long is enough. Should we just bump the dir size
>from 16 bytes to 32? Well, that's _probably_ fine in _many_ cases. How
>about 64 bytes? Yeah, surely that's enough. Certainly the 255 char
>filename limit of the BSD filesystem is as good as infinity for
>_human-generated_ filenames.
>
> [...]
>
>Of course, it's possible to argue that variable-length dirents are not
>worth the added complexity in the filesystem, but for most people the
>lifting of such an arbitrary limit as 14 is nothing but good news.
How long can filenames be in 0.12? (Sorry if this has already been answered.)
-Joel