Copying files, Windows 260 character path length limit, can a Linux system bypass this?

Question

As many of us may know, windows has a limit to how many characters can be in the destination of where you can paste a file this is destination folder+file name, 255 xp, 256 vista, 260 seven and up.

And this is a pain for many of us, so in my attempt to find a way around this, I found 1 method that normally would work but didn't for me, robocopy.

So being a fan of linux, I thought I'd look up on google what it's max copy/paste character limit, but to no avail have I found results.

So I figured I'd take the easy way out to finding my answer.

Can you copy/paste files with a destination folder+file name that's more than 260 characters with linux such as ubuntu.

Answer 1

Ubuntu has ext4 filesystem by default (or ext3 in old versions). Most modern Linux systems prefer ext4 as their default filesystem. Neither ext3 or ext4 filesystem has any limit on maximum pathname length.