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Re:A Look into CBL-Mariner, Microsoft’s Internal Linux Distr... by mdaniel on Monday July 12, 2021 @01:49PM (#27813027)
NTFS also has a 260 character path limit [0], which as the sibling comment says can really jam up node_modules and the current HEAD of the intellij-community repo which currently has some giant filename in a subdirectory of its repo

I'm aware of their claim about using Group Policy to remove the limit but I've never used GP in order to know its sharp edges for my gaming computer

0: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/naming...

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Re:A Look into CBL-Mariner, Microsoft’s Internal Linux Distr... by trevorishere on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @07:00AM (#27831719)
NTFS has never had a limit of other than 32K. MAX_PATH limited 260 characters for the Win32 API (among others). It has always been possible to bypass the 260 character limit, though obviously most applications wouldn't work with a file that exceeded the system-defined MAX_PATH value.

Office does its own thing and doesn't leverage MAX_PATH. No idea why.

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