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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:28:00 -0800
From: geoff@collyer.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil speed
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File names are unbounded, as always in Plan 9 (and originally in Unix,
before Unix was ``fixed'').

File name *components* are limited to NAMELEN-1 bytes (not characters).
This was 27 ASCII characters or 9 Japanese characters.  In the new ken fs,
I've made it 55 ASCII characters or 18 Japanese characters, which turns
out to be enough to handle all but one of the file names that lnfs on
my machines recorded (and that was one was some obscene XML file name).
When you install the new ken fs, you can crank NAMELEN up higher if you want,
though you'll then get few directory entries per block.