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Links about usage of file systems, FS implementation and theory behind implementations. Floss or proprietary, legacy or alpha-stage.

Links about usage of file systems, FS implementation and theory behind implementations. Floss or proprietary, legacy or alpha-stage.

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Operating systems that actually read filenames longer than 260 characters.

It seems that all major operating ​systems today ​will only read the fir​st 255 or at most 260 characters of a filename and ignore the rest, by design. Nothing wrong with this, of course, but I ​was wondering, are there operating​ systems that can read filenames with much lengthier filena​mes ? For instance, Rei​serFS supports filenames with upto 4032 chars in length (!!).​​ ​What OS can read such a filename without truncating it? ​If there is none today, was there ever such an OS? Please mention it. ​Otherwise, what was the point of supporting fIlenames with so many characters? ​I know there must be a reason, but it beats me.

Thanks

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2024/12/19
21:56 UTC

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Trying to understand the different file systems and their features. What are my best resources?

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2024/12/17
02:34 UTC

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Is there any viable alternatives to File Explorer?

It is really slow and changes from Windows 10 to 11, is there anything else out there... or are we alone.. forced to use such crud?

Sorry for the dramatic flare, if there is anything out there please let me know.
i hope this post does not get stopped by automod because of my low karma

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2024/12/17
00:24 UTC

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snapshot send/receive capability?

Does anyone know of a filesystem that implements something like btrfs send and btrfs receive? It looks like redhat removed btrfs so I'm looking for alternatives.

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2024/11/25
03:38 UTC

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