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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:12:13 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: Versioning file system
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Jan Harkes wrote:
> 
> Still, anything that depends on increasing the length of file or path
> names to refer to different versions will encounter problems for long
> file names and deep paths because there is an upper limit on file and
> path name lengths.
> 

Then you have the Solaris variant -- rely on openat() flags to decend
into another namespace.

	-hpa
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