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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Long path problem


From: Ben Escoto
Subject: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Long path problem
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 17:50:29 -0600

>>>>> Chris Wilson <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Tue, 22 Nov 2005 20:47:29 +0000 (GMT)
> 
> I used a simple shell script on a Linux ext3 filesystem:
> 
>       while mkdir aaaaaaaa && cd aaaaaaaa; do true; done
> 
> 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?  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?


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Ben Escoto

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