[openbeosstorage] Re: ddm questions

On 2003-10-27 at 23:33:37 [+0100], you wrote:
> > > > > BTW, do you think B_OS_NAME_LENGTH (32 chars) is sufficient for
> > > > > partition
> > > > > (content) names?
> > > > 
> > > > That's where volume names end up getting stored, isn't it? No, I don't
> > > > like
> > > > the 32 character limit for the volume names. Seems okay for the
> > > > disk-system
> > > > type names, though.
> > > 
> > > You mean the ones defined in <DiskDeviceTypes.h>? The longest one 
> > > already
> > > occupies 28 characters. Maybe it's better to have some more margin?
> > 
> > Yikes. Okay, maybe so. I'll switch those, too.
> 
> Okay, is there a difference between disk system names and partition types?
> Are the disk system names the short ones, like 'bfs' and 'iso9660', or 
> should
> we make those B_FILE_NAME_LENGTH as well?

Since the disk systems are provided as modules, their names are module names, 
i.e. `filesystems/bfs/v1' or `partitioning_systems/intel/extended/v1'. They 
should at least be B_FILE_NAME_LENGTH or even B_PATH_NAME_LENGTH.

CU, Ingo

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