Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!uflorida!gatech!prism!msd!rhoward From: rhoward@msd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs Subject: Re: PC-NFS 3.5 Filename truncation Message-ID: Date: 4 May 91 20:24:14 GMT References: <1991May4.081455.29048@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> Sender: news@prism.gatech.EDU Organization: Georgia Tech Research Institute Lines: 53 jb@falstaff.mae.cwru.edu (Jim Berilla) writes: >I have a few programs which run on pc's and store data on a mounted >filesystem. I've been writing to files with names like "mp-100t-910503" >which 3.0.1a handled quite nicely. Now 3.5 truncates the filename. >Is there any way to turn off the filename truncation? It's really nice >to do an ls and see which tests have been run without having to look in >each file. The data is processed on Suns, so I don't have to deal with >the name mapping on the pc's. I had this problem too. I called Sun and they supplied a patch to the pcnfs.sys file which disables this filename truncation. Here it is (hopefully it's cool to post a Sun suuplied patch....) ---------------------Sun supplied patch----------------------------- Here's a patch that reenables the bug so people can (usually) use long filenames and get away with it. Unfortunately because of serialization this must be done on each pcnfs.sys individually unless they have copyser: 1. Make a backup copy of pcnfs.sys. 2. Do the following, noting blank lines. At both addresses there should be "jz" instructions if you want to unassemble them first: ---------------- debug pcnfs.sys a a70d nop nop a a74f nop nop w q ---------------- 3. Reboot. ---------------------end Sun supplied patch------------------------- Hope this helps, Robert -- | Robert L. Howard | Georgia Tech Research Institute | | rhoward@msd.gatech.edu | MATD Laboratory | | (404) 528-7165 | Atlanta, Georgia 30332 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | "Reality is showing us that perhaps we should do with nuclear | | power the same thing Keloggs is advocating for Corn Flakes - | | Discover it again for the first time." -- John De Armond |