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From: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: What kinds of things would you want in the GNU OS?
Keywords: GNU OS features kernel fun!
Message-ID: <210@sopwith.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jun 89 18:26:50 GMT
References: <106326@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <4315@ficc.uu.net> <338@arc.UUCP> <157@paix.ikp.liu.se>
Reply-To: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy)
Organization: The Daisy Hill Puppy Farm
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In article <157@paix.ikp.liu.se> pekka@paix.ikp.liu.se (Pekka Akselin [The Mad Midnight Hacker]) writes:
|]In article <4315@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:

|]>names are too short. 255 is ridiculous. Just increase the size of
|]>struct dir to 32 bytes and use 30 characters. ..

|Why don't make the filename length dynamic!?

There appears to be some misunderstanding about the BSD fast filesystem.
The length of the filename *is* dynamic, with an upper limit of 255.
The system does not waste 254 bytes to store a one character filename.
In fact, a one char filename would use *less* space in the new filesystem
than in the old.

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