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jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

NTFS also has a 255 limit, but it’s UTF16, so for unicode, you will get more out of it. High price to pay for UTF16. Windows basically is moving stuff between UTF16 and ASCII all the time. Most apps are ASCII but Windows is natively UTF16. All other modernly maintained OS do UTF8, which “won” unicode.

The fact that all major Unix (not just Linux) filesystems are to 255 bytes says it’s not a feature in demand.

I’d much rather have COW subvolume snapshotting and incremental backup of btrfs or zfs. Plus all the other things Linux has over Windows of course.

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