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It's been a while since I last checked, but if I remember correctly, Windows has a 255 character path limit.
by jeffmould 10y ago
It's been a while since I last checked, but if I remember correctly, Windows has a 255 character path limit.
- ReedJessen 10y agoAh, great point. I didn't think of this constraint. So the maximum number of hierarchies is something around 127? eg a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a
- new_hackers 10y agoyes, AFAIK this is still true today
- jf 10y agoFor the curious, this page contains a helpful comparison maximum pathname lengths of various filesystems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems