From: rkresge@mail.omitthis.redrose.net (Roger Kresge)
Subject: Re: Long File Name Space
Date: 1998/04/30
Message-ID: #1/1
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Reply-To: rkresge@mail.omitthis.redrose.net (Roger Kresge)
Newsgroups: fido.novell


"Michael Golden"  wrote:

>Sorry to disagree with you but VREPAIR won't remove long name space
>support.  To remove it, you would have to delete the netware partition and
>re-create it. 
>
Don't know where you heard this one, but it's absolutely and totally
incorrect.  VREPAIR has been able to remove name space support from NetWare
volumes since NetWare 3.x introduced name spaces.  There is absolutely no
need to delete a NetWare partition in order to remove a name space.  (OK,
there's one exception, having to do with an upgrade to the Mac name space
that shipped with NW 4.10.  In that case, RTFM.)

>> 
>> Long files have never been shown to slow down applications, or
>> cause problems. It is a very well proven solution, that is, os2.nam
>> and long.nam, and thus, I sincerely doubt application being slower
>> was caused by long file name support.
>> 
>> To remove it however, run vrepair. However, you'll trash all
>> long files on server. Think about it twice.
>> 
>>                                         Alex G.

Actually, adding a name space *could* slow down a server's performance if
it was already marginal on RAM.  Adding a name space to a volume also adds
a new Directory Table entry for *every* file and directory on the volume.
The RAM needed for standard indexing and directory caching could slow down
a server's performance.


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