[OpenAFS-devel] long volume names (was IPV6)

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> Duh.
>
> Make the vlserver allocate uuids tied to a volume name. Make the new
> volume header also support it, e.g. keep it as meta-info with the volume
> on the server also. Use that as your short name. It can simply be a 0
> padded counted index and you should still probably be fine.

(And you need a leading character to insure it's not treated as a volume
id, iirc)

It might be posssible to make it so "short" volume names continue to be
treated by name, so "fs lq ~" still shows user.shadow and not
x0000000000000001 or whatever, but you need to be careful to still hash
any volume whose name might legitimately be in this portion of namespace.