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| author | Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> | 2012-08-03 11:53:44 +0100 |
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| committer | Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> | 2012-08-05 22:48:53 +0100 |
| commit | 369565a3ac6492586b27c70a651b2af8e28e220a (patch) | |
| tree | 3135ec97a000121af2ba216c4003f5d2ffe5af17 /src | |
| parent | 23dcc225c815c7a7c93609e68f884c1561d541c1 (diff) | |
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Document problems copying long filenames from NTFS to Linux filesystems (RHBZ#845488).
(cherry picked from commit 7fa67427c6b2725bdcce52c08511f8813b7bd42e)
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diff --git a/src/guestfs.pod b/src/guestfs.pod index 9292c001..eb74fbf6 100644 --- a/src/guestfs.pod +++ b/src/guestfs.pod @@ -645,6 +645,28 @@ replacement will work. To resolve the case insensitivity of paths, call L</guestfs_case_sensitive_path>. +=head3 LONG FILENAMES ON NTFS + +NTFS supports filenames up to 255 characters long. "Character" means +a 2 byte UTF-16 codepoint which can encode the most common Unicode +codepoints. + +Most Linux filesystems support filenames up to 255 I<bytes>. +This means you may get an error: + + File name too long + +when you copy a file from NTFS to a Linux filesystem if the name, when +reencoded as UTF-8, would exceed 255 bytes in length. + +This will most often happen when using non-ASCII names that are longer +than ~127 characters (eg. Greek, Cyrillic) or longer than ~85 +characters (Asian languages). + +A workaround is not to try to store such long filenames on Linux +native filesystems. Since the L<tar(1)> format can store unlimited +length filenames, keep the files in a tarball. + =head3 ACCESSING THE WINDOWS REGISTRY Libguestfs also provides some help for decoding Windows Registry |