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Message-ID: <467862CD.6070009@zytor.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:12:13 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, david@...g.hm,
Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>,
Chris Snook <csnook@...hat.com>,
Jack Stone <jack@...keye.stone.uk.eu.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
akpm@...ux-foundation.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
alan <alan@...eserver.org>
Subject: Re: Versioning file system
Jan Harkes wrote:
>
> Still, anything that depends on increasing the length of file or path
> names to refer to different versions will encounter problems for long
> file names and deep paths because there is an upper limit on file and
> path name lengths.
>
Then you have the Solaris variant -- rely on openat() flags to decend
into another namespace.
-hpa
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