14 character limitation in filenames

[Dick Dunn]

dmckeon at hydra.unm.edu (Denis McKeon) writes:
> Since AT&T's 14 isn't enough, and BSD's to null or 255 is slower to
> read (or is it?), how about encoding the current max filename length
> following the . or .. entries (conventionally the first two dir entries).
[then goes on to describe a method]

Problem is that this isn't compatible with either of the existing, common
approaches.  If you're concerned about seriously backward compatibility,
you probably want to stay with the AT&T approach.  The BSD method doesn't
cost much in efficiency, so if you want long names it's the way to go.
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