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

[Yoav]

On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Ben Escoto wrote:

> I think most people will be fine until their paths reach about 3950
> chars.  So I was mainly wondering if it's ok to skip paths longer than
> that, or if someone actually has data they want to save in files whose
> paths are 5kB long.

If I may barge in, I think it actually does happen legitimately, when a 
file-level crypto filesystem is being backed up (not the plaintext inside 
but the encrypted tree).  For example EncFS pads filenames/dirnames to 
make it harder to guess the original filename.  It is not uncommon to end 
up with very long pathnames in this mode (which is the default).

True, shortly after the 3950 limit is reached, EncFS will itself fail due 
to inability to write the encrypted files.  However, some pathnames may 
fall in between so they will be written correctly by EncFS but not backed 
up by rdiff-backup.

        Yoav