🚀 go-pugleaf

whats wrong with giving a user a choice, whether or not to make a path 
statment five pages long.  If someone had enough time to type all that 
text in, just for a file that said "me too", so be it.  does that effect 
you? of course not.  if it does, you can change it with mv easily.  whats 
wrong with a choice.  I usually dont give filenames that are over 10 
chars long, but if i need it it is there.  I am always sad when i work on 
a ms-dog machine because my "unique" file names always seem to repeat on 
the 8+3 schem, on unix/linux, it does not.

your idea of how to store long file names is almost correct.  in unix, 
directories are nothing more that specaily named files.  these files 
contain the long filename and its i-node information(another break thru 
for file storage) so one could say that, yes each directory has its own 
little database called directory infomation, and that is all it takes, 
you dont need an SQL server to keep track of you file system or anything 
like that.   it is simple and fast and efficent, what else do you expect 
from UNIX/Linux? 

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Jeffery Walker                  Auburn University
04 CPE                       Computer Engineering
walkej2@eng.auburn.edu
"Real programmers don't document.  If it was hard
to write, it should be hard to understand."
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On 18 Aug 1995, Gaven Miller wrote:

> Robert Krawitz (rlk@laraby.tiac.net) wrote:
> 
> >    >:    -long file name support
> 
> > ...like unlimited (at least the filesystem switch shouldn't impose a
> > limit).
> 
> Yes, and in the AOL-esque sense, I can just image a file name that spans 
> five screens full of path and name, just to contain a "Me too" as the data.
> 
> How would one store, and iterate a filesystem where filenames could be 
> any size? Would one open a system file called "Directory", and use a 
> system-supplied database utility to iterate the files?
> 
> Far better would be a (say) 1024 limit on the total path size. So from 
> the root directory to the end of the filename would total not more than 
> 1024 chars.
> 
> 
>