Messages in this thread | | | From | Bernd Eckenfels <> | Subject | Re: A Great Idea (tm) about reimplementing NLS. | Date | Sun, 19 Jun 2005 00:30:19 +0200 |
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In article <20050616150419.GY23488@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> you wrote: > As for filenames never being long enough, I don't think that is true. > Filenames CAN be too long, but I don't see very many people think 250 > characters makes for a useful filename. Most people seem happy with 50 > or so being a good limit even though many systems support much longer. > 8 wasn't enough, and 25 or 30 was sometimes a bit short, but usually > enough. Not having enough filename length doesn't seem to be a problem > in need of a solution on most systems anymore.
pathname length however is a bigger issue. 255bytes is pretty short, especially if you distributed file systems with deeply nested mountpoints.
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