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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Long path problem
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Ben Escoto |
Subject: |
Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Long path problem |
Date: |
Tue, 22 Nov 2005 17:50:29 -0600 |
>>>>> Chris Wilson <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Tue, 22 Nov 2005 20:47:29 +0000 (GMT)
>
> I used a simple shell script on a Linux ext3 filesystem:
>
> while mkdir aaaaaaaa && cd aaaaaaaa; do true; done
>
> The path got to nearly 8000 characters long, and although cd was giving
> warnings about "getcwd: path name too long", it was still going when I
> killed it.
May I ask why you did this? Is it ok if rdiff-backup just skipped
over a lot of those directories? (As long as it didn't crash of
course.) Or do you need that structure correctly mirrored?
--
Ben Escoto
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