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[Andrei Pozolotin <Andrei.Pozolotin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dustin, Tyler:

my 2 cents:

can we do zlib compression before you mangle it into the POSIX lower
name?

most long file names are human-readable, which mostly means redundant;

I did a zlib compression test with some 1K of my files with name size > 100 chars;
result: about 4.0 compression ratio : 4 bytes into 1; chances are everything will fit!

and thank you for ecryptfs!

cheers,

Andrei

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file name to long when creating new file
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/344878
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Status in eCryptfs - Enterprise Cryptographic Filesystem: Confirmed
Status in “ecryptfs-utils” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed

Bug description:
When trying to create a new file with a relatively long filename (f. ex. dfkmqsdgjfmqsldjfmlsqkjlqkdmfsmgjlqlskdqshgpoizehmlqkbgmlqbgmqbdfkmqsdgjfmqsldjfmlsqkjlqkdmfsmgjlqlskdqshgpoizehmlqkbgmlqbgmqbdfkmqsdgjfmqsldjfmlsqkjlqkdmfsmgjlqlskdqshgpoizehmlqkbgmlqbgmqb.txt)
I get an error: file name to long, when in fact the file name is not to long, but the encrypted name created for this file is to long, so, the file was not created.

this is no problem when I try to create a file, but when I'm copying a lot of files to my home folder I get some: filename to long error's and it's hard to fix (first locate the file, create shorter name, move again)

so, maybe you could create a check for to long filenames?

I'm using ext4 here...

mv dfkmqsdgjfmqsldjfmlsqkjlqkdmfsmgjlqlskdqshgpoizehmlqkbgmlqbgmqbdfkmqsdgjfmqsldjfmlsqkjlqkdmfsmgjlqlskdqshgpoizehmlqkbgmlqbgmqbdfkmqsdgjfmqsldjfmlsqkjlqkdmfsmgjlqlskdqshgpoizehmlqkbgmlqbgmqb.txt /home/jens/
mv: cannot stat `/home/jens/dfkmqsdgjfmqsldjfmlsqkjlqkdmfsmgjlqlskdqshgpoizehmlqkbgmlqbgmqbdfkmqsdgjfmqsldjfmlsqkjlqkdmfsmgjlqlskdqshgpoizehmlqkbgmlqbgmqbdfkmqsdgjfmqsldjfmlsqkjlqkdmfsmgjlqlskdqshgpoizehmlqkbgmlqbgmqb.txt': File name too long


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