It's not a bug, it's a feature. Thank POSIX.2 which specifies for
ustar that the total pathname must be 255 chars or less and the
filename must be 100 chars or less.
go read pax(1)
-Bob
* eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-10-21 13:15]:
> It seems that tar(1) is only able to archive filenames of 100 characters or
> less. However, ufs can handle (I've been testing using touch(1)) filenames
> up to 255 characters. I tried to modify the following in src/bin/pax/tar.h
>
> #define TNMSZ 100 /* size of name field */
>
> to
>
> #define TNMSZ 255 /* size of name field */
>
> But it didn't seem to work.
>
> Has anyone bumped into this and made a more reliable fix?
>
> The issue is that with NFS mounts of directories such as iTunes music
> directories, there's often longer file names than 100 characters. So doing
> backups or transporting the files is slightly difficult.
>
> Thanks. I'm using 3.7-STABLE.
>
> - Eric
>
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