Hi Ben,
The path got to nearly 8000 characters long, and although cd was giving
warnings about "getcwd: path name too long", it was still going when I
killed it.
May I ask why you did this?
For kicks? :-) I wanted to see if I could make my kernel panic? And to see
if rdiff-backup really did have a problem with long path names?
Is it ok if rdiff-backup just skipped over a lot of those directories?
(As long as it didn't crash of course.) Or do you need that structure
correctly mirrored?
I don't need it mirrored as such, it was a kind of stress test for
rdiff-backup. But I think it shows that rdiff-backup may have problems
backing up some legitimate directory structures, and that the long path
problem is not just theoretical.
Cheers, Chris.
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