Hello! On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 02:07:16PM -0500, eric wrote: >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
It's an issue of the (us)tar data format. Especially, raising it to 255 doesn't help either, as the field encodes *path* names, and *path* names can be up to 1023 or so bytes. >[...] >Has anyone bumped into this and made a more reliable fix? Use a more apt data format in your use case. Ehm correcting myself: According to pax(1), 100 is the limit for pathnames in the old tar format, while the limit for ustar is 250. For *pathnames*!. Perhaps you can use cpio (or pax with -x cpio). >[...] >- Eric Kind regards, Hannah.
