On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 03:34:28PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2023-12-11 15:16:57 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 02:58:01PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > I do not care about the "microsoft world", and I doubt that this is > > > required there at the low level (what would be the equivalent of the > > > Linux kernel) [...] > > > > This depends: the FAT file system (which still is the lowest common > > denominator) actually reserves 8 chars for the file name and three > > for the --ahem-- extension. The dot isn't encoded explicitly on-disk. > > This is unrelated to the OS. The FAT file system may be used also > under Linux (e.g. because this is what some memory sticks have), > and there are the same limitations.
You conveniently snipped the OS part. Of course this (and the absence of hard links) is a limitation of the file system. Cheers -- t
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