From: Stephen Tweedie (sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk)
Date: 04/26/93 

From: sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie)
Subject: Re: filename length?
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1993 17:24:23 GMT

> What is the max length of filenames under linux?

Minix-fs: 14 or 30 - choose when you make the filesystem.
                           (30-char names only on 0.99pl7 (I think) or later).
extfs: 255
ext2fs: 255
xiafs: 248
NFS: depends! You currently can't interrogate the server's limit.
ISO-CD 255
msdos 8+3
proc Does it really matter?!

Cheers,
 Stephen Tweedie.