site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com On 20/12/2007, at 4:19 PM, Terry Lambert wrote: Which brings us full circle. Sam _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.a... On Dec 19, 2007, at 8:40 PM, Nick Blievers wrote: Right, I said the max path size was 128.... and the max individual node size was 32. Obviously using 128 characters (broken into a path) is much more descriptive than using 32 only. So subdirectories help work around the node name limit... up to DEVMAXPATHSIZE. A considerable improvement! Except they aren't supported, except via "mkdir" from user space. Terry, I was simply trying to point out that they're useful. You guys have already said in a few places that they're not supported and that's fine, but when the documentation _is_ the code, people are going to do stuff like this when it suits their purposes. We weren't fortunate enough to have so much timely and detailed feedback from Apple engineers on these lists back then. Having said all that, your statement that subdirectories don't get you around the node name limit was simply not true. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com