ls .zfs/snapshot: File name too long

[Ben Woods]

On Wed, 8 Nov 2017 at 12:43 pm, Youzhong Yang <youzhong at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just saw a strange issue when listing .zfs/snapshot folder:
>
> # ls -l /vmgr/Btnas1_c.750842.Bmain.747831.pass/.zfs/snapshot/
> total 3
> drwxrwxr-x  5 root  batserve  9 Nov  7 22:48 Btnas1_c.750842.pass
> drwxrwxr-x  5 root  batserve  9 Nov  7 22:48
> Btnas1_c.750842.pass.jobarchive
>
> # zfs snapshot
>
> clusters/vmgr/Btnas1_c.750842.Bmain.747831.pass at Btnas1_c.750842.release.jobarchive
>
> # ls -l /vmgr/Btnas1_c.750842.Bmain.747831.pass/.zfs/snapshot/
> ls: Btnas1_c.750842.release.jobarchive: File name too long
> total 3
> drwxrwxr-x  5 root  batserve  9 Nov  7 22:48 Btnas1_c.750842.pass
> drwxrwxr-x  5 root  batserve  9 Nov  7 22:48
> Btnas1_c.750842.pass.jobarchive
>
> No kidding, file name too long? Is this a known issue? By the way, I am new
> to FreeBSD. The version I am using is 11.1.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Youzhong
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Hi Youzhong,

This topic has been discussed before here:

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2010-March/007964.html

In summary, the length limit for a mount points path is 88 characters in
all released versions of FreeBSD.

This has been increased to 1024 in FreeBSD 12-CURRENT, as it was increased
as a part of the 64bit INODE project. Due to the massive amount of changes
by that project, it will not be backports to stable branches for FreeBSD
11.2.

Regards,
Ben
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From: Benjamin Woods
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