On 2015-01-19 16:20, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Jan 19, 2015, at 8:46, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b_at_gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas_at_bris.ac.uk> >> wrote: >> >>> So perhaps changing MNAMELEN will break statfs(2) on >>> -stable too? >>> >> >> I believe the context there is not so much "-current is special", as >> "changing it for everyone is bad news" (and this would necessarily need to >> originate in -current). > > A compat layer needs to be created for all of the affected syscalls, and the change needs to be made. That’s it in a nutshell. > > Doing it in 11 makes sense since there is a compat layer for 10 now… if I knew all of the steps I would happily do them as annoys me from time to time as well with the path length issue. > > Thanks! > Especially with ZFS, I find I have a lot more mounts now, under longer and longer path names, and then I have .zfs/snapshots/snapshotnamehere/path/to/file etc. Definitely a +1 for "this is something we need for 11" -- Allan Jude
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