Path names in the "root" (/) file system

 

Path names have specific form in the "root" (/) file system.

     /Directory/Directory . . . /Object

• Each component of the path name can be up to 255 characters long, much longer than in the QSYS.LIB or QDLS file systems. The full path name can be extremely long, up to 16 megabytes.

• There is no limit to the depth of the directory hierarchy other than program and system space limits.

• The characters in names are converted to UCS2 Level 1 form (for *TYPE1 directories) and UTF-16 (for *TYPE2 directories) when the names are stored.

 

Parent topic:

"root" (/) file system

 

Related concepts

Name continuity
*TYPE2 directories
Path name