[Gllug] OT: Very long pathnames

[Christian Smith]

On Mon, 23 May 2005, Peter Ball wrote:

>Hi
>
>I've got about 50 Gbytes of Windows shares to transfer to a Samba server.
>
>Particularly where users have saved web pages  we end up with crazy long
>path names (especially when the complete web page is saved creating a
>sub-folder sometimes to multiple levels).
>
>Windows will actually save and use pathnames which exceed its own
>specifications (I've got one here where the total path is 264 characters - the
>file name alone is 197 characters).  It works fine until you try to copy the
>share and god knows what it does when you backup, restore, zip, unzip etc.


264 is perfectly valid for a path name in Windows. NTFS supports file
names up to 255 characters. Not sure whether SMB puts restrictions on
file name length, but these names are well within NTFS bounds.


Christian

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