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| From | scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: Old commercial UNIX in '26 |
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| References | <nnd$6ea886ba$1c547b7f@9c94dd43bc13ac30> <wfdYR.493866$_BG8.262449@fx24.iad> <110u1kp$g8g$1@reader1.panix.com> <hHxYR.91908$tRR9.48494@fx23.iad> <1110f4i$42r$1@reader1.panix.com> |
| Message-ID | <iwTYR.68164$0o1c.32839@fx08.iad> (permalink) |
| Organization | UsenetServer - www.usenetserver.com |
| Date | 2026-06-18 14:45 +0000 |
cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) writes:
>In article <hHxYR.91908$tRR9.48494@fx23.iad>,
>Scott Lurndal <slp53@pacbell.net> wrote:
>>>>The system V unices had the 's5' filesystem
>>>>(and supported ufs, vxfs, and a few others).
>>>
>>>Yeah, `s5` was basically the research filesystem with larger
>>>blocks and a doubly-indirect block or something, right?
>>
>>Yep. And a 14-character filename length limit.
>
>So inodes were still limited to 16 bits? Yikes. You think they
>could have at least gone to 28 char limits for the filename and
>4 byte inode numbers. :-)
Even in Unixware, they maintained backward compatibility.
#ifndef DIRSIZ
#define DIRSIZ 14
#endif
typedef struct direct {
o_ino_t d_ino; /* s5 inode type */
char d_name[DIRSIZ];
} direct_t;
#define SDSIZ (sizeof(struct direct))
Not that anyone was actually using s5 filesystems that late
in the game.
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