Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 09:14:40 +0200 (MET DST) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Re: FreeBSD Filesystem Message-ID: <199610180714.JAA24841@allegro.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961016232016.3139E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> from "Doug White" at Oct 16, 96 11:24:28 pm
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Doug White writes: > > On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, W Mark Maynard II wrote: > >> Can someone tell me what filesystem FreeBSD uses? Also, are there any >> special limitations (max partition size, max file size, filename length >> restrictions, etc.)? > > FreeBSD uses a modified Berkeley UFS for it's native filesystem. > > Filenames are pretty much free-form, I believe there is a limit at 255 > characters or so, not sure there. Yes, the limit is imposed by the fact that the length is stored in a single byte. File names may consist of *any* character, printable or not, except /, which is used as a directory delimiter. Greg
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