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From: bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: File system performance
Message-ID: <1990Nov11.013732.1263@unixland.uucp>
Date: 11 Nov 90 01:37:32 GMT
References: <1990Nov5.154056.4737@pegasus.com> <1990Nov5.225213.11920@unixland.uucp> <1990Nov9.220931.2091@everex.uucp>
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In article <1990Nov9.220931.2091@everex.uucp> jde@everex.uucp (-Jeff Ellis()) writes:
>In article <1990Nov5.225213.11920@unixland.uucp> bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes:
>>No, Esix has a 14 character limit on filename length.
>
>Yes and no. If the ESIX FFS partion is made with the -sysv option then
>you are limited to 14 characters. Otherwise its 256 characters. Our
>default in our install script is with the -sysv.
>

If I were to re-install, making sure the -sysv option is NOT used, would
there be any side effects?  Would the FFS still work properly, for example?


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