On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 09:30:53PM -0800, Philip Guenther wrote: > On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Vadim Zhukov <persg...@gmail.com> wrote: > ... > > Thanks a lot, Phillip! Now I feel myself much more brave than a few hours > > ago. :) I think about tweaking NAME_MAX to 1535: this should be fine for any > > 255 UTF-8 characters (and even a bit more). Oh, PATH_MAX is smaller... But > > none said it'll be easy; otherwise somebody probably had done this work in > > OpenBSD already. :) > > My response made you feel *more* brave about making the change? > Changing both the on-disk format *and* ABI makes this worse than a > normal a flag day: not only would you be unable to use normal OpenBSD > binaries, but you wouldn't be able to view the filesystem with a > normal OpenBSD bsd.rd. If something goes wrong, digging out your data > could be really painful.
Vadim is crazy enough to work on kde4, so it doesn't sound too bad by comparison. :)
