[rdiff-backup-users] Long path problem

[Ben Escoto]

I mentioned the long filename problem before, and Chris Wilson
mentioned that I forgot one case:  where the path as a whole is too
long, even if each file/directory name is short.

I thought this could be solved by changing directories, but after
thinking about it this would actually be a pain:  I'd need to add
either a check or a chdir before every file operation.  And I'm sure
I'd forget some places, and would be finding random (hard to
diagnose?) errors after this.

Also a path may be more than 2x as long as the limit.  These long
paths would require 2 or more chdirs to reach.


So anyway, I'm curious when/how the long-path-problem is coming up.  I
wish rdiff-backup could successfully mirror all the files in this
case, but don't see a way of doing this that's not error-prone.
(Treating them the same way as long filename files and sticking them
in a separate directory would be a bit easier.)


-- 
Ben Escoto

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