Max Path length these days

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 10:36:27AM -0400, Michael Lueck wrote:
> Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> 
> >I've seen 255 UTF-8 characters limits in Japanese Windows versions during
> >bug hunting in Samba 3. Not sure that it is hard limit though.
> 
> OK, then this entry in the MSCPP header files might not be too short then...
> 
> #define MAX_PATH 260
> 
> I'll leave MAX_PATH in my code for now. I had seen folks doing crazy things 
> like 1024 and 4096 for the max... nice, but if the OS does not support it 
> then why waste the space for now.

I think that's actually a directory component length. I'm not sure what
that actual limits are in NTFS (might be very large) but we haven't hit
any problems with a max path of 1024.

Jeremy.