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> Can anyone explain why a modern filesystem should have a limitation on path length? Performance and verbosity of code. Having a limit allows the creation of
by keeperofdakeys 15y ago
> Can anyone explain why a modern filesystem should have a limitation on path length?
Performance and verbosity of code. Having a limit allows the creation of fixed-sized structures, which makes the code much simpler (remember, code has bugs, so more code is more bugs). It also makes the generated machine code much simpler, leading to better performance.