17 Oct
2014
17 Oct
'14
8:22 p.m.
On Oct 17, 2014, at 9:07 AM, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com> wrote:
Right!
McKusick, et al. say that it came with the Fast Filesystem in 4.2 [1]
I recall a presentation at UW in Madison where he said, (paraphrasing from memory) We
heard you guys. We included long file names in the Fast File System. (loud cheers)
- Milo
[1] https://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~brewer/cs262/FFS.pdf
> For VAX, 4BSD appears to use an "index
into file string table", whereas
> 3BSD still has an 8-character string. I don't see any provision in the
> 4BSD linker for loading 3BSD binaries.
I think System III or System V picked this up.
> Filenames over 14 characters appear to have
been introduced in 4.1BSD.
No, at 4.2 BSD with the Fast Filesystem. (Maybe 4.1c or some such
already had the FFS, but the original 4.1 didn't...)
Arnold