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Old 03-16-2008
unix file system V filename limit
Why unix system V has a filename size limit of 14 characters.How other versions of Unix got around this problem.Can anybody help?
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Old 03-16-2008
The original Unix filesystem had a limitation of 14 characters. Other versions of Unix used different filesystems with much larger limitations. A very few people actually liked that 14 character limit. To accommodate them, some versions of Unix allow you to force this limit artificially. For example, HP-UX allows a -S flag when creating a UFS filesystem. And they have a convertfs command to take a one-way trip into longer filenames. Other versions of Unix may have something like that too. But if your version of Unix is still using the old filesystem, you probably have no way around it except to upgrade to a more modern version of Unix.
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Old 03-16-2008
i need more information
Why was that limited to 14 characters.That has something to do with inode and storage considerations.Help me
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Old 03-16-2008
Ken Thompson thought is was an acceptable limit. He could have made it 15 or 16 just as easily. Or 12 or 13. There was nothing magical about 14. In the early 70's 14 seemed like a lot for a filename.
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Old 03-16-2008
Affecting storage space
Wont the increase in filename size decrease the stroage limit of filesystem.?
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Old 03-16-2008
Space allocated to filenames is not available for file data, but that's always true. What are you really asking these questions for?
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Old 03-16-2008
Im a unix student
I am not getting my basics right.Can you please explain to me where the filename space is allocated and why the filename size increase does not affect the storage space
 
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