Re: extending the maximum filename length (pointer to patch)[request for input]

> Am 12.09.2017 um 23:11 schrieb Ben RUBSON <ben.rubson_at_gmail.com>:
> 
> On 12/9/17 2:17 pm, Conrad Meyer wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 9:09 AM, Julian Elischer <julian_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> maybe we could get it into -current.
>>> It'd be silly to have to have people re-inventing hte wheel all the time.
>>> How about you put those changes into the reviews.freebsd.org and we can get
>>> some general consensus on them.
>>> We'll have to do similar for the Asian customers and anyone who uses UTF-8.
>>> So it
>>> would be silly to have to develop it all again (but subtly different of
>>> course).
>>> 
>>> The key issue is how many system calls and other APIs would be broken,
>>> and how many would be broken in a non backwards compatible way?
>>> 
>>> We would need it in a stable/10 and 11 branch but if the patch is isolated
>>> enough we could carry it forward until we get to 12.
>>> 
>>> One has to allow people to do whatever they are used to with Windows.
>>> And in this case the issue is serving files over samba to windows machines.
>> Hey Julian,
>> 
>> I've thrown the patch up at https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12330 .  I
>> haven't actually tested it on FreeBSD, but it does compile.  We also
>> have some patches against contrib/pjdfstest to fix those tests against
>> long file names, but I think we can hold off on those changes until
>> we've nailed down what the architectural change will be (if any).
> 
> Hi Conrad,
> 
> This patch makes me think about another related bug #184340 :
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=184340 <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=184340>
> It is about PATH_MAX which in some cases can be too small.
> 
> Not sure if it's the case / and how to do it,
> but perhaps it is time to raise some other limits /
> think about a global solution regarding these length limits ?
> 
> Many thanks !
> 
> Ben



And there’s also this bug:


https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=215067 <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=215067>

"g_dev_taste: make_dev_p() failed on importing pool with snapshots with long names“



But maybe that has nothing to do with it.