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| author | David Oberhollenzer <david.oberhollenzer@sigma-star.at> | 2020-06-29 17:02:32 +0200 |
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| committer | David Oberhollenzer <david.oberhollenzer@sigma-star.at> | 2020-06-29 17:22:13 +0200 |
| commit | 79fb53e4497965a9cf02f31af38db3bc6b2b1fb7 (patch) | |
| tree | 597bd86aae30add652d7ae7f3db5043a1632afdd | |
| parent | 94cfa86b56792e8b95e3807c8174e348d70eac59 (diff) | |
Document the file name limit imposed by the kernel implementation
Signed-off-by: David Oberhollenzer <david.oberhollenzer@sigma-star.at>
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diff --git a/doc/format.txt b/doc/format.txt index 7d4f812..63e8d5d 100644 --- a/doc/format.txt +++ b/doc/format.txt @@ -966,6 +966,11 @@ Also note, that the inode type is stored in the entry, but always as a basic type! + While the field is technically 16 bits, the kernel implementation currently + imposes an arbitrary limit of 255 on the name size field. Since the field is + off-by-one, this means that a file name in SquashFS can be at most 256 + characters long. + 6.1) Directory Index |