Help! modifying os to support >14 char filenames (sys V.3)

[Jeff Beadles]

cliff at motcsd.csd.mot.com (cliff.rodriguez) writes:

>We are working on a project to convert our system V based system (ver 3)
>from 14 char file names to something much larger.  Has anyone out there
>done this, or heard it done?  I need to know if this is going to be the
>slow tedious task I think it is.   Any suggestion on how to speed up the
>work or some magic answer would be appreciated... thanks in advance...cliff

This is a long, slow, painful process.  (I know--  We've done it.)  We
implimented the Berkeley FFS as a filesystem type at the same time.

After the kernel is finished, you have to go thru most ALL of the user-code.
There's 14 character filth (I can think of other 'F' words that fit :-)
all over the place.

Overall, this is not a trivial task.  Be prepared to check user code from
'ar' to 'zcat'.

	-Jeff
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