Re: MinixFS 0.6pl11: a few bug fixes

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>]

Yves Pelletier <ypelletier@cmc.aes.doe.ca> writes:

|> On Wed, 1 Mar 1995, M J Maisey wrote:
|>> On Wed, 1 Mar 1995, Dancer wrote:
|>> 
|>> > Is there a good reason that MiniXFS is limited to 14 character filenames? 
|>> > Is it intentional, or a bug? (using 0.6pl10)
|>> 
|>> It's not. Use the -n parameter of minit to get 30 character (-n 2) or 62 
|>> character (-n 4) filenames.

|> True. But you can't you only do that with V2 minix filesystems?
|> Then the minimum minit parameters for longer file names would be:  

|> -V -n 2

No, it does work for v1 filesytems too.  The major difference between
v1 and v2 is that the latter uses long word block numbers, thus it can
have more than 65536 blocks.

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