Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Long path problem

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Ben,

> > 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?

For kicks? :-) I wanted to see if I could make my kernel panic? And to see 
if rdiff-backup really did have a problem with long path names?

> 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?

I don't need it mirrored as such, it was a kind of stress test for 
rdiff-backup. But I think it shows that rdiff-backup may have problems 
backing up some legitimate directory structures, and that the long path 
problem is not just theoretical.

Cheers, Chris.
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