linux max filename length

[Joe Crown]

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "chad at planetmayfield.com" <chad at planetmayfield.com>
> To: "Provo Linux Users Group Mailing List" <plug at plug.org>, "Wade Preston Shearer" <lists at wadeshearer.com>
> Subject: Re: linux max filename length
> Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 11:16:05 -0600
> 
> Wikipedia has a table on max filenames and max file system size;
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Limits

Thanks for mentioning that article.  I noticed one small problem in it.  They didn't know if HPFS ran on the NT kernel.  It did through Windows NT 3.51 at least.  I know Windows NT 4 wouldn't let you format it, but I don't know if it could read it or if you were forced to upgrade to NTFS.