[OpenAFS] Re: OpenAFS Project List

[Derrick J Brashear]

--On Thursday, March 15, 2001 08:30:25 PM -0500 aeneous@speakeasy.org wrote:

>
>> The argument was made that short names be used for volumes, while full
>> names would be used for sysname values; Additionally, existing sysname
>> families would be grandfathered.
>
> How big is a DNLC entry?

>From afs/afs_osidnlc.h
#define AFSNCNAMESIZE 36 /* multiple of 4 */
struct nc {
  unsigned int key;
  struct nc *next, *prev;
  struct vcache *dirp, *vp;
  unsigned char name[AFSNCNAMESIZE];
  /* I think that we can avoid wasting a byte for NULL, with a
   * a little bit of thought.
   */
};

The comment would seem to indicate 35

-D