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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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