|> On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Andreas Schwab wrote:
|>>
|>> Please note that other filesystems also need to deal with aliases because
|>> they truncate or mangle names (minixfs truncates at 14 or 30 characters,
|>> nfs might have other limits imposed by the server, and isofs needs to deal
|>> with this too).
|> Right (although I don't think any current filesystem truncate names any
|> more: minixfs _used_ to do it, but it leads to various nasty problems for
|> standard UNIX utilities, so it's generally better to just disallow them).
Minixfs still truncates names. I see nothing wrong with this, and i
haven't seen any problems although i still use minixfs regularily.
Andreas.