Date:Sat, 5 Feb 2022 22:20:16 +
From:David Brownlee
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| Oops, my earliest unix experience was on a BSD4.3 variant, so I was
| spoiled by ffs and didn't realise the (in this context) helpful v7fs
| behaviour with overlong filename components.
To
On Wed, 2 Feb 2022 at 17:24, Robert Elz wrote:
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> Date:Wed, 2 Feb 2022 15:26:21 +
> From:David Brownlee
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> | So, we just need an optional flag when mounting v7fs to truncate any
> | looked up filename component to 14 characters
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> That's n
Date:Wed, 2 Feb 2022 15:26:21 +
From:David Brownlee
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| So, we just need an optional flag when mounting v7fs to truncate any
| looked up filename component to 14 characters
That's not, or shouldn't be, necessary - that always happened, the limit w
> On Feb 2, 2022, at 6:47 AM, Robert Elz wrote:
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>Date:Wed, 2 Feb 2022 07:11:45 +
>From:David Holland
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> | v7fs isn't a compat interface for old users,
>
> That's sad, I could do with something just for me!
>
> | it's a compat interface fo
Hello,
On Wed, 02 Feb 2022 21:47:25 +0700
Robert Elz wrote:
> So maybe it is for us truly old fogies (can we have v6fs as well?
Well, there is this thing...
https://github.com/jaylogue/retro-fuse
A user-space filesystem (FUSE) for accessing ancient Unix filesystems.
retro-fuse provides a way
On Wed, 2 Feb 2022 at 14:47, Robert Elz wrote:
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> Date:Wed, 2 Feb 2022 07:11:45 +
> From:David Holland
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> | v7fs isn't a compat interface for old users,
>
> That's sad, I could do with something just for me!
Sounds like we need a compat_kre(8)
Date:Wed, 2 Feb 2022 07:11:45 +
From:David Holland
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| v7fs isn't a compat interface for old users,
That's sad, I could do with something just for me!
| it's a compat interface for old disk images :-)
And makefs -t v7fs fits into that purpose how
On Wed, Feb 02, 2022 at 05:43:45AM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> | Test mkdir(2) with one or more trailing slashes - this currently fails
> | for v7fs.
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> As it should I think, trailing slashes are not simply deleted in v7fs.
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> [...]
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> If this was ever changed, it would not truly be
Date:Tue, 1 Feb 2022 18:27:24 +
From:"Martin Husemann"
Message-ID: <20220201182724.90f82f...@cvs.netbsd.org>
| Test mkdir(2) with one or more trailing slashes - this currently fails
| for v7fs.
As it should I think, trailing slashes are not simply deleted in
