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From: G. David Butler gdb@dbS...
Subject: [9fans] allowing space (ASCII 0x20) in file names
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 17:08:19 -0500

>>From: "G. David Butler" <gdb@dbS...>
>
>>I think each component limited to 27 octets is ok.
>
>What am I saying?!?  A 9 "character" file name (with up to 3 octets
>per "character") is a little anemic!  This neeeds to be at least 20.
>
>So do we change NAMELEN from 28 to 64, or bigger?  Anybody from Japan
>have an opinion?

Hello?  Where did everybody go...?

[continuing to talk to self...]

Self, first you need to split user name lengths from file name
lengths.  How about FNAMELEN?  Seems reasonable.

NAMELEN = 28
FNAMELEN = 64? 128? 256!?  Hell, might as well fix it now. 256.

In that case the overhead for 9p now gets quite high given all
the Twalks.  So how about a uchar length followed by data?  Makes
sense.

Boy, the fileserver needs a much bigger inode.  I don't see any way
around it.  Of course DIRPERBUF gets a lot smaller.  It's good I
have indexes.

And another thing, there is enough about Plan9 that the user needs
to be aware of, might as well add spaces to file names so the DOS
weenys don't eat your lunch when you do IMAP and CIFS...

Off to work.

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