I mean, that’s the default path length limit on most systems, but it isn’t an inherently fixed value. It’s just what everyone uses by convention.
is that a linux thing or a filesystem thing?
File system. There’s no reason a file system couldn’t increase this limit but there’s little reason to for most users. Not sure who the hypothetical user would be that needs a higher limit.
Accountants, for one thing:) “Report this that company those and those things from day x to day y”.xlsx Drown in similarly named directories ten levels deep
Windows, which I imagine is used by most accountants, has 260char limit for file paths
That’s an Application limit however. Leading to you being able to put files where they can no longer be worked with in a meaningful fashion (e.g. easily deleted).
Yes.
