14 character limitation in filenames

[Craig Macbride]

jrh at mustang.dell.com (James Howard) writes:

>In article <290 at sps.com>, arm at sps.com (Annette Myjak) writes:
>> can anyone explain why there's the 14 character limitation in filenames
>> (11 + 3 for extension) in interactive unix?

>It is not 11+3, but 14 characters period.  (Which would map to 11+2 anyway,
>including the period).

Actually, it's 16-2, if anything. SysV Unix likes directories which have 16-
byte entries for files, which are split into 2-byte unsigned inode number and
14-byte file name. As you pointed out, BSD uses up to 255 chars, by storing
each entry in a variable length.

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