Comment on Microsoft boosts Windows’ FAT32 partition size limit after nearly three decades
jabjoe@feddit.uk 4 weeks agoOf course UTF8 is Unicode. The cool thing about UTF8 is that is ASCII, until it isn’t. It cover all of Unicode, but doesn’t need any bloat if you are just doing latin characters. Plus UTF8 will seamless go through ASCII code and thing that understand it do, others just have patches of jibberish, but still work otherwise. It’s a way better approach. Better legacy handling and more efficient packing for latin languages. Which is why it “won” out. UTF16 pretty much only exists in Windows because it’s legacy it will be hard for it to escape.
LUKS is by far the most common encryption setup on Linux. It’s done at block layer and the filesystem doesn’t know about it. No effect of filename length, or anything else.
rdri@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
None of that helps or discards anything I’ve said above. But it allows to say that NTFS limit can be basically 1024 bytes. Just because you like what UTF-8 offers it doesn’t solve hurdles with Linux limits.
LUKS is commonly used but not the only one.
jabjoe@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
VFS is where the 256 limit is hard. Some Linux filesystem, like RaiserFS, go way beyond it. If it was a big deal, it would be patched and widely spread. The magic is Linux, is you can try it yourself, run your own fork and submit patches.
LUKS is the one to talk about as the others aren’t as good an approach.