Re: MinixFS 0.6pl11: a few bug fixes

[Dancer <dancer@ozspace.brisnet.org.au>]

On Wed, 1 Mar 1995, Yves Pelletier wrote:

> 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

	I tried formatting at V2 filesystem orginally. I've tried it on 
three partitiions, with the only result to date being that when I try to 
'ls' any subdirectory of that partition, the system hangs. Trying to kill 
the process causes the kernel to crash. (this was without any options 
other than '-V')

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