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On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 01:01:06PM -0600, Patrick Walsh wrote: > On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 14:46 -0400, Jan Harkes wrote: > > > volume names: 32 characters > > file names: 256 characters > > path names: 1024 characters > > ... > > Those are great and if I get a moment, I'll put them in the wiki (if > someone else doesn't beat me to it), but I'm also interested in other > limitations that could cause problems, like: > > * don't rename a file across volumes and expect it to replicate (or am I > wrong about this?) Cross-volume rename returns EXDEV, and the 'mv' program then falls back and uses copy/unlink just like it would when you try to rename a file between different filesystems. > * don't access a file that's bigger than your client cache size I guess. > * don't access a file when you have less than 2x the file size free > space available on the client Only if you intend to write to the file while disconnected, since we need to keep a copy around that we can send back to the server while still allowing the user write access to the file. JanReceived on 2005-04-27 15:12:23