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authorhttp://jmtd.livejournal.com/ <http://jmtd.livejournal.com/@web>2010-11-17 07:47:07 +0000
committerJoey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2010-11-17 07:47:07 +0000
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@@ -19,3 +19,16 @@ It would also appear this abrubtly terminates aggregate processing (if not ikiwi
> that, in additional to having a rather antique long filename limit, your
> system also doesn't properly expose it via pathconf. Not sure what
> ikiwiki can do here. --[[Joey]]
+
+>> This is an ext4 filesystem with default settings (which appears to mean
+>> 256 bytes for pathnames). Despite the error saying file name, it's
+>> definitely a path issue since moving my test repo to `/tmp`from
+>> `/home/jon/wd/mine/www` hides the problem. I note the following comment
+>> in `aggregate.pm`:
+
+ # Make sure that the file name isn't too long.
+ # NB: This doesn't check for path length limits.
+
+>> I don't fully grok the aggregate source yet, but I wouldn't rule out
+>> a bug in the path length checking, personally. I'm happy to try and
+>> find it myself though :) -- [[Jon]]